>Hi Mike,
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>Long time!
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>Also thought about this. Just cannot figure how this work for deleted records? Say my Products have 56 rows, then it is dumped to the branches. Great. Then, a few Products were removed at Head Office - no timestamp will be recorded here. This means the update algo should be "two-sided "- one needs to check the new timestamped records from Head Office - and also - use Branch Products to check against the entire Head Office Products for any missing ones for deletion, right?
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>Is there a more elegant way? :)

Hey Dennis! Long time indeed :)

Yes, a bit more elegant.
Don't delete any records.
Add an "active" logical field and default to .T.