The only automatic to detect that a row was changed is with a timestamp. Sadly, the timestamp has nothing to do with dates and times. It's just a rolling number.

Most people add two columns to the row like updatedOn and UpdatedBy, which are filled in by either a trigger or explicit code.

-Mike

>I'm not sure I understand -
>
>In my VFP screen I'd like to inform the user that the data from the SQL server table that (s)he's looking at was last updated at 2002.10.10 22:00
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>There is no row in the table that could provide this info, and I have no influence on the DB design, so I'm not likely to get one.
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>>Either create a trigger to update a column on the row or have your stored procedure do it.
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>>-Mike
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>>>There's bound to be a way to determine the date / time of the latest update to a table, and I did search, but so far with no luck.
>>>
>>>So, help is truly appreciated.
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
>>>Peter