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Synchronize tables
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From
25/04/2002 11:13:26
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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25/04/2002 10:59:23
Dave Emerson
Dc Emerson Consult8Ng, Inc
Destin, Florida, United States
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00648867
Message ID:
00649159
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>I had actually thought of using a timestamp, but now am leaning toward a change flag which would be reset by the synchronizing program.

That may be even better. A single byte, and the timestamp may be bogus (wrong time on the computer). I am not sure, though, since I didn't actually do this kind of thing myself.

You will still have to think what to do with "update conflicts" (two users changing the same record on both sites).

Hilmar.
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