>>>>Just for information, since I know VFP8 will make this unnecesary, how do I manipulate an SPT cursor so that it can be used to write back to the server?
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>>>>TIA
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>>>See mskb #Q138094 How to Create Updatable Views by Using SQL Passthrough> and faq #8153 How to make SQL Pass-Through cursor updatable.
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>>Thank you Sergey. Is there an easy to use routine available somewhere? I mean something that would examine the select statement in order to map cursor fields to table fields, find out which fields form the PK and make all other fields updateable, all with a simple call such as OpenCursor()? Tradeoffs could be made in order to keep things simple.
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>Hi Alex,
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>I dunno.

If you don't know then it doesen't exist.