Even though you are forcing updates, there are still several situation where TABLEUPDATE will fail: unique key violation, trigger failure, locked table header or record, etc. You should always check the results of TABLEUPDATE() to be sure and catch this...
>Thanks much for your answer Erik,
>I am not doing that because I and forcing a tableupdate with
>=TABLEUPDATE(1,.T.), but I will check that. The only reason I think that could
>make =TABLEUPDATE(1,.T.) to fail is somebody having a LOCK in the record, which is weird because this table is only updated through views.
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>Thanks again, Erik.
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>>Are you checking the return value of your TABLEUPDATE()?
Erik Moore
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