>>I'm on VFP 7.0. No CursorAdapters in VFP 7 right? Currently my application doesn't use a database container. Do you think I should go through the work of setting up a database and using remote views instead of SQL Pass-thru. Since most of the updates will be less than 500 records, will SQL Pass-thru with scanning the cursor and doing INSERTS not be efficient enough? Will I experience an enormous drop in peformance?
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>I think scanning 500 records and then sending 500 inserts as one batch (using execute ('insert ...') syntax) should be quick enough.
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>You can switch to remote views, but I don't have experience with remote views. With remote views you don't have to write extra code.

So Naomi,

I've written code to do my INSERTS using sql pass-thru:

lnSuccess = sqlexec(lnConn, "insert into " + lcSchema + lcSourceTable + "(" +  lcDestinationFields + ") values(" + lcValuesList + ")")

I'm building the lcDestinationFields before I start SCANning the table records. This works fine, and is doing ONE record at a time. But takes about 20 minutes to transfer 7500 records. I guess I mis-understood you the last time.

How do I do as you say above and scan about 500 records and send 500 inserts as one batch?

Thanks