>Dana,
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>I have not encountered the problem you are talking about.
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>However, have you considered not to do FLock() at all and updating the table within a transaction.
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>If only part of the table changes, I can provide you with a piece of code that just updates/inserts/deletes the delta on the whole table or on only part of it


Gregory,

I welcome the code you mentioned. At this point I am trying to find a different way of updating the table in hope that I can avoid the lock-up.

Thanks
-Dana