>Well, I have multiple instances of the Visual FoxPro application on the server. Right now, I have 2 which means, sometimes, I have collision. Also, the mailing list application is using the same command, so we have 3 application. So, collisions do occur.
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>Yes, the tags need to be updated but this shouldn't take more than 2 minutes, which happened this morning. In fact, if the Web server wouldn't have a 2 minutes timeout, who knows how long it would have taken to execute this command.
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>As mentioned to Ed, I will start with AUTOMATIC. If I still have the same behavior, I'll add the FLOCK mecanism.
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>I'm using PHDBase which has a tag on that table. Might it be the problem?

Michel, I think your idea about PHDBase might be a good one. Somehow it has to index all of the keywords in a message, and that's a LOT of information in a long message.

I'd be interested if anyone knows how the program works?

Barbara