>Which is a better approach in managing database?
>1. Pure Buffering feature
>2. Combination of Buffering and BEGIN/END Transaction
>3. Pure BEGIN/END Transaction
>
>What's the significance of Buffering feature in VFP when TRANSACTION can do what Buffering can?

IMHO and i'm newbie coimpared to others, I do 2, I'll explain:

Pure buffering don't gives you a security for the data. I use table buffering (5) and it inside a transaction.

The meaning of transaction & buffering together is clear for me, think that a transaction must be as quickly as you can, it's no good to do the transaction of a grid, for this use bufering, and when the data is ok, issue a BEGIN TRANSACTION / TABLEUPDATE / ...

I think anyone can explain yo this better than me.