I like to issue tableupdate() after each row is changed so I know which row received an error if an error occurs. It will be some slower but not that much. VFP will still send one row at a time if you tableupate() at the end.

>>>Hi,
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>>>I am trying to decide on the better approach of processing/updating many rows of a table. Here is the brief description.
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>>>A table of about 2000 rows has to be processed where for each row the program has to recalculate certain amounts (based on other tables) and update 2 columns. I am using Cursor Adapter as a method of getting/setting SQL Server tables. From the stand-point of efficiency of SQL Server, is it better to get all records/rows of the table, scan thorugh all rows of the cursor, update the values, and then do TableUpdate() for all rows? Or process one row at a time and call TableUpdate() after each row is processed (columns updated).
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>>>TIA for any input.
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>>From the SQL Server point of the view updating 2000 records at once should be more efficient than updating one row at a time.
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>Thank you. If the approach with stored procedure does not work, this is what I will do.