I have never used it but maybe setting the BreakOnError property to .T. would help identify the problem/error.

Also, doesn't Tableupdate() return .T./.F.?

>I have the following CursorAdapter defined.
>
>

>**************************************************
>*-- Class: BooksAndAuthors
>*-- Program: BooksAndAuthors.prg
>*
>* CursorAdapter to provide access to the Microsoft
>* SQL Server data for books and authors
>*
>
>DEFINE CLASS booksandauthors AS cursoradapter
>	SelectCmd = [SELECT TI.Title_id, TI.Title, AU.au_Lname, ] + ;
>					[AU.au_Fname, TI.PubDate, ] + ;
>					[TI.Price AS Price FROM pubs.dbo.Titles TI ] + ;
>					[JOIN pubs.dbo.TitleAuthor TA ON TI.Title_id = TA.Title_id ] + ;
>					[JOIN pubs.dbo.Authors AU ON TA.au_id = AU.au_id ] + ;
>					[ORDER BY 1,2,3]
>	Tables = [Titles]
>	KeyFieldList = [title_id]
>	UpdateNameList = "Title pubs.dbo.Titles.Title"
>	UpdatableFieldList = [Title]
>	Alias = "BooksAndAuthors"
>	DataSourceType = "ODBC"
>	CursorSchema = "Title_id C(6), Title C(120), Lname C(40), FName C(40), Pubdate T, Price Y"
>	Name = "BooksAndAuthors"
>	FetchAsNeeded = .T.
>	AllowUpdate = .T.
>	SendUpdates = .T.
>	
>	FUNCTION Init
>		LOCAL lcConnection
>		lcConnection = "driver=SQL Server; " + ;
>		               ";server=NYCPSJWBOOTH\VINCENT; " + ;
>		               "uid=***; pwd=***"
>		This.DataSource = SQLSTRINGCONNECT(lcConnection)
>	ENDFUNC
>
>ENDDEFINE
>

>
>I can query the data with the following;
>
>

>ox = NEWOBJECT("BooksAndAuthors","c:\effective\application\prgs\booksandauthors.prg")
>ox.CursorFill()
>BROWSE last
>

>
>And I see the browse window and can edit the title field on the first record. I move off of the first record without any error and then I execute;
>
>

>?TABLEUPDATE(.t.,.t.,"BooksAndAuthors",laerror)
>

>
>And tableupdate returns -1, the array has one element with the value of -1 and an AERROR() show no error occurred.
>
>Any ideas why this CA won't do an update?