>>Hi Karen
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>>First things first - design. The point of databases is not to do things Row By Agonizing Row, but to think in terms of sets. It is very rare to write a replace command to affect one record. If you are doing that, to me, it suggests this is happening inside a larger loop. 1 replace commands such as this
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>Design?
>If one like to change multiple records there is SQL UPDATE. Why learning outdated syntax? Is there realy a sense in NEXT xx or WHILE xx? The data should not depend on order .... (Except you are dealing with VFP sources like vcx,scx frx ....)
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>The good on REPLACE is that it can be used on a single record without any change of record pointer and superfluous expression. Here it has a great advantage to SQL UPDATE. So I would do what the OP seems to do (altering a field on a condition) on some pre-save checks on record level using REPLACE.

REPLACE has another benefit

REPLACE ;
field1 with value1, ;
field2 with value2

is better than

UPDATE (field1, field2) values (value1, value2)

With long commands, having each field near the update value is a benefit.