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>>Hi Dave :),
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>>From what I understood, transaction management in VFP does locking at the table level. I would expect that this limits the burden on the Network OS.
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>>Marc
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>Hiya Marc :-))
>Hmmmmm.... I wonder what happens in an heavy user environment when someone always has a record lock somewhere?? May it tries a table lock, then reverts to multilock on failure????


Euhhhh .... I'm afraid you're right. And I doubt that it would do any Lock Escalation (had to look that one up:). But I do remember that a use statement failed of a table that was participating in a transaction, that's where I concluded that tables must have been locked.

Me an my big mouth ... :)

Marc