William,
Try the following against the northwind customers table:

?SQLEXEC(lnSql, "SELECT customerid, companyname FROM customers", "customers")
=CURSORSETPROP("Tables", [dbo."customers"])
=CURSORSETPROP("UpdateNameList", [customerid dbo."customers"."customerid", companyname dbo."customers"."companyname"] )
=CURSORSETPROP("KeyFieldList", "customerid" )
=CURSORSETPROP("UpdatableFieldList", "customerid companyname" )
=CURSORSETPROP("SendUpdates", .t.)
REPLACE companyName WITH UPPER(companyName)
?TABLEUPDATE()
?SQLEXEC(lnSql, "SELECT customerid, companyname FROM customers", "customers")
BROW

>I enterd the cursor properties as you stated and and when I use TABLEUPDATE(1,.t.,"tablename") I still get a return of .F. and aerror() shows once again the error to be 'No update tables are specified. Use the Tables property of the cursor.'
> I am using a remote view, and I set the cursor table property as
>CURSORSETPROP("Tables","owner.table"). This cursor is called using sqlexec()
>You said to use the schema name within the CURSORSETPROP("tables","schema.tablename.field). What would be the schema name?