>If the view is open and updatable, you do not have to open the base table and if, for some reason you do, do *not* allow any direct updating of it...it'll just get you into these situations. :-)
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How can you avoid not having the base table open when you open a local view. Page 193 of the M$ Programmer's Guide says that opening a view will also cause the base table to be opened automatically. That is my experience, also.

I used the FLUSH command after the successful TABLEUPDATE command to make sure the modified record was moved out of the buffer into the table. It seemed to take awhile for the indexing to reflect the change anyway, but not as much time as not using FLUSH.