>OK, I'm a little new at this but I have created a view which uses three other tables to extract information that meets a particular criteria. Once I am satisfied with the data, I want to globally go back and change two fields in the source tables that serve as flags for each record in the view using the UPDATE command. I tried to construct one but keep getting a syntax error. I tried this
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>UPDATE sourcetbl1 SET column3="0001"
>WHERE viewtbl.column1=sourcetbl1.column1;
>AND viewtbl.column2=sourcetbl1.column2

At first glance, here are a couple of things...

You have no semicolon at the end of your first line

Since there is no space between "column1" and the semicolon, without a space before "AND" at the first line, VFP will interpret the line as:

WHERE viewtbl.column1=sourcetbl1.column1AND viewtbl.column2=sourcetbl1.column2

Christopher