>>>Yes, that is what I thought. So, my APPEND BLANK command is followed immediately by a sequence of REPLACE commands to set values for each field of the new record.
>>>
>>>I need to step through this more carefully to examine this hypothesis.
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>>Why do you need more than one REPLACE command? You can update multiple fields with one REPLACE.
>>Can you post your REPLACE command?
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>Sergey,
>
>Here is the set of REPLACE commands that I use to populate the new record.
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>APPEND BLANK IN csrProjSessions
>REPLACE csrProjSessions.ProjSessionsID WITH -1
>REPLACE csrProjSessions.GroupID WITH this.Parent.Parent.nSelGroupID
>REPLACE csrProjSessions.VisitID WITH lnSelVisitID
>REPLACE csrProjSessions.ProjSessionsName WITH TRIM(this.Parent.Parent.cSelGroupName) + '-' + TRIM(lcSelVisitName)
>REPLACE csrProjSessions.ChoiceModifiedCol WITH CHOICEADDED
>

>
>Jim

Remove table alias and use just one REPLACE command instead (or INSERT command). It is quicker than multiple commands especially if you have field/table rules.