Hi Nancy,

>INSERT INTO doesn't lock anything at all, AFAIK...That's what TABLEUPDATE is for. What style of buffering do you use?

The VFP documentation states a list of commands that "automatically" handle locking while updating, and INSERT INTO is one of them. Perhjaps I have misread the docs, but I have never tried to lock anything on an INSERT INTO in a multi-user environment before and have never had this problem.

In terms of buffering, I am using pessamistic row buffing. As stated in the original post, I use an INSERT INTO to create the record (with buffering on), then issue an TABLEUPDATE() to write through to the database.

Phil