>>>Your explanation doesn't make sense to me, I suggest you spend some more time and fix whatever is wrong in your code.
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>>Nick Mason reminded us that insert won't work when you're at eof() in the current alias. That's explanation enough to me.
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>That's incorrect information from Nick, SQL commands behaves differently from xBase commands.

I've already done my head scratching last night, thanks... had a case where a "blank fields for {condition} in {alias}" invariably blanked only the first two records out of five. And a different alias would be selected. Can't find any active timers. Eventually got it to work by rewriting it into a scan for - blank - endscan loop.