Are you sure the record pointer is not moved after the APPEND BLANK? With record buffering, if the record is moved, a TableUpdate() is automatically issued by VFP. I allways use table buffering to avoid this situation.

HTH

>The primary index key is an Oracle sequence, however there is a required unique field that must be entered (Social service number) as well as Oracle internal processing that is dependant upon values in some of the other fields. i.e is record for civilian or militray employee.
>It is finding an easy way to move to INSERT INTO that I am looking for, the only way I can think of to do it now is to go back to FP 2.6 style, where data controls are m.field_name and not cursor_name.field_name