Thanks, I am doing that right now, I'll let you know what I found.

>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...
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>>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()?