George,
I don't know why you're having this problem, but you could add a Logical field to the remote view and put a checkbox into the grid for the new field. Let the user's click the checkbox instead of the delete mark (you'd have to remove the delete mark to prevent their using it). This is visually clear to the user and easy to check in the remote view. I'm assuming that after you checked the Oracle records you could just "Delete for MyNewField = .T."

HTH
Barbara

>Hi Nadya
>
>Thanks for your reply. I am working in a client-server environment using VFP and Oracle 8. The idea here is to get the list of deleted records from this remote view and perform a check in the backend for each of these records using SQL Pass-through before they are actually deleted.
>This is why I can't use a tableupdate at this point. I could perform a check at the point the user clicks the delete mark on the grid, however it would be a little slow since the user moves fairly quickly over the grid.
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>Any other ideas?
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>Thanks again
>
>George