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It's feasible under multi user environment?
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From
25/04/2002 09:31:33
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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25/04/2002 09:10:38
Michale Chen
Shijiazhuang ZhiYuan Crop.
Shijiazhuang, China
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00649067
Message ID:
00649109
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16
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>Hi Hilmar:
>I know this function may procudte many conflict,is there a method to avoid it?

I am sending this message a second time, since I forgot to include a copy to you:

On second thought - I assume you are not talking about a specific function, but about sharing DBFs in general.

This can basically cause two kinds of conflicts.

1) If one user uses a table exclusively, another user can't access it. I already gave the solution: open the table SHARED.

2) It may be possible that two users try to edit the same record. This can be solved through record locking (see rlock()), but the preferred method (in Visual FoxPro), is to use, at least most of the time, optimistic buffering (see: CursorSetProp("Buffering"), TableUpdate(), TableRevert()). With optimistic buffering, if another user saved changes after I started editing, TableUpdate() (with the default options) will fail, and I will have to start from the beginning (for this particular record).

HTH, Hilmar.
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