>>>Oops. Something else is happening now. If I delete several records from the grid and then save, they disappear from the grid. When I exit the form and re-enter, all but the last of the records I deleted have reappeared. I'm using pessimistic table buffering on all my tables.
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>>Hi,
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>>Have you issued =TABLEUPDATE(.T.,.T.,'MyTable') before exiting the form?
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>On closer inspection I realized that I am in fact issuing TABLEUPDATE(.F.,.T.), which explains it.
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>I didn't reply for a while because we've had internet problems at our office.
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>Before I go ahead and change my buttonbar class so it issues TABLEUPDATE(.T.,.T.) could anyone tell me what are the risks involved? At the moment, I'm using tables. I'll likely switch to views soon.

There is not more risky to use views than Tables but it is a lot simple to use views to protype for remote access to a database. But, it requires a lot more job for using them.