>>>In VFP 5.0a this sequence of commands returns no records the returns records..What am I missing?
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>>>select thisview && parameterized view w/several records (buffering =5)
>>>delete
>>>tableupdate(1,.f.,'thisview')
>>>requery('thisview')&& returns none
>>>requery('thisview') &&returns records
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>>Are you in the Command Window? You can get a false zero count there...
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>Have done it both in form and command window..zero count is correct, browse show no records.
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>'thisview' has reference to 4 different tables but only one is updateable.

I guess it depends on table relationships, what happens when you delete a record from multi-table view...but I don't know why successive requeries get different results at runtime, never've seen that...