>I'm writing an application where I will be updating my database from an XML message. The tables I am updating have insert and append triggers on them. I don't want to fire these triggers if my particular application is the one updating the tables.
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>I don't have exclusive database access, so I can't exactly change the trigger to suit my needs.
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>Any thoughts? Is there a simple command I can run that disables the triggers until I issue another command?

You may be able to declare a variable in your programs:

glDisableTrigger = .T.

and check for that in the trigger code.