Thanks for the suggestions. Something like this would try a max of 5 times with a short random delay between tries. I'm still not doing anything about it if it eventually fails, but I assume this would cut that probability down considerably.

I'm not using a back end database right now. I wonder how hard it might be to put just this audit table into SQL Server. Could that problem be avoided by doing that?

Declare Sleep IN Win32API;
INTEGER dwMilliseconds
Local i, loError
loError = .F.
For i = 1 To 5
	Try
		Insert Into Auditlog_sys ; && etc 
			
	Catch 
		loError = .T.
		Sleep(Rand()*50+10)
	Endtry
	If !loError
		Exit
	Endif
Endfor