>I am trying to avoid the "deadly embrace" syndrome with a shared network table. The documentation states that both APPEND BLANK and INSERT - SQL lock the table header and recommends using APPEND BLANK to avoid conflict, but I have thought that INSERT was the better method, however yesterday we had that dreaded conflict.
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Deadly embrace? This is when two processes are waiting for one another two finish before continuing- how could you do this with VFP?

SET REPROCESS TO AUTOMATIC has always done it for me- I have never had a problem. I use both INSERT INTO and APPEND BLANK depending on the situation, and have not been bitten with either one.