>>Hi
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>>I've just picked up this error in a multi user system
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>>File is in use by another user
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>>But I am puzzled as the file is already in use by the application and the error is occurring on the line APPEND BLANK.
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>>Any ideas why I would get that error?
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>>Thanks
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>>Nick
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>Append blank locks the table header during the append
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>Following link says that this error can occur when two users append a record at the same time
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa975797(VS.71).aspx
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>Users can share the table without causing a conflict when you issue the APPEND BLANK command, but an error can occur while another user is also appending a BLANK record to the table. You can trap for the error, "File is in use by another," which is returned when two or more users execute APPEND BLANK simultaneously.
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>It's not clear to me how much 'set multilocks on'/set reprocess to / sys(3051) can help. Maybe a simple retry will do
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What do you think about setting TABLEVALIDATE to 0 ?