>>I am updating 1050 rcords in a table buffered view...
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>James, I don't think this situation calls for a buffered update. Consider this code:
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>scan for iForeign_key <> 100
> replace iForeign_key with 100
>endscan
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>Run this in the default data session (no buffering) with an error trap. If it doesn't finish properly, then just run it again. You don't need to ROLLBACK.
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>Peter Robinson

We resolved the problem! The TRANSACTIONS were failing on our older server running Novell 3.11, but when we moved the data to a server running Novell 5.0, everything ran fine. I think this had something to do with file locks as someone previously suggested.