Hey Ray

Does it really become useless? If you're adding a new record to a buffered table, you could use Indexseek to see if a previous record exists. If not, you do a tableupdate.

Are you saying Indexseek doesn't do this? If you add 2 records in the buffer, do you expect to prevent duplicates within the buffer?

>>>

>>>CREATE DATABASE temp
>>>CREATE TABLE anytable (pkey I PRIMARY KEY, cChar C(6))
>>>SELECT anytable
>>>INDEX ON cChar TAG cChar
>>>SET ORDER TO pkey
>>>SET MULTILOCKS ON
>>>CURSORSETPROP('Buffering',5)
>>>

>>>
>>>Unfortunately, got the exact same results :-(
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>>The issue seems to be that the new record hasn't been committed. If you add a TableUpdate() before the INDEXSEEK(), you get the expected results.
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>>I am a little surprised by this myself, since the whole point of INDEXSEEK() is to be able to search in buffered tables without committing records.
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>>Tamar
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>Yup, that was exactly my point in saying it renders the function useless. Actually, it's not, of course, I use it all the time in other contexts, but it sure DOES make it useless in checking keys on new records.