>>>>>You're right. I've checked the help online quickly. The first parameter must be 0, the second is up to you.
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>>>>I can't thank you enough for this suggestion (TableUpdate). It is very simple and works.
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>>>Ok, great.
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>>Unfortunately (not your fault) I was too fast to like this approach. It does not really work. You see I want to update the cursor from the base table. And the TableUpdate() does not update the cursor from base table but rather the other way around.
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>What exactly do you mean by other way around? The way could be to run a select statement from the base table for the particular PK and then do scatter / gather approach to update local cursor, but it's a bit strange design.
This is pretty much how my program works now (scatter/gather) but why do you say it is "strange" design?
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