Hmmmm. Well Kent I am not sure. The CURVAL function is *supposed* to read the record from the original table (not the locally buffered data) directly. That is the intent of it for multi user networks. I am wondering if it could be something else - and here I amm getting into stuff I don't know too well - such as needing to use a FLUSH command. Maybe the data isn't being put into the original table as fast as you think it is. Just guessing of course. Other than that I can't think of anything. HTH

>In the following enviroment curval over a network will not return the correct value.
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>Use native tables.
>Buffer Mode optimistic.
>Private data session.
>Set Refresh to 300,300
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>By turning down the refresh to 10,1 you narrow the window of a error to one second. With local views and Refresh() you can get the correct data,
>but with native tables and no function for refreshing the tables
>you do not get the correct value.
>Thanks.