>Ed,
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>>Nope - VFP does not reuse blocks in a memo field when the field is updated, so each REPLACE is expensive - it create new blocks to write the entire field content fresh each time you update it.
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>This isn't true. VFP will reuse the allocation if the content still fits. There is a bug in VFP5 which prevents memo reuse but it was fixed in VFP6.

In my testing, it only reuses for a replace, not update and not through ODBC. And only when exclusive use is on. Have you seen different results?