Cheers Tore, just wanted to be sure I wasn't miles off the mark.

~M

>>Hi all,
>>
>>normally I would do a seek on a table that has a 2 field index, if I find the entry I update a field, if not I create a new record.
>>I was thinking about changing this to an update command, but wondering if there are any issues, speed mainly, with this.
>>

>>update table1 set field3 = "some data" where field1 = "ABC" and field2 = "DEF"
>>if _tally = 0
>>    insert into table1 (...) values(...)
>>endif
>>

>>it doesn't seem to slow things down as against a seek but I'm wondering if this is the dont thing.
>>the reason I would like to move to an update command is to modify code to be more like .net and sql which we're migrating to.
>>
>>~M
>
>This is a very good solution, I do exactly the same thing. Whether you can save a nanosecond or two by doing it differently, I don't think is important.