>>>How would I know, from reading the VFP7 (SP1) Help description of the command, that it is designed to work only for SQL Server (2000?) data?
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>>What do you mean?
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>I mean... if I was a new VFP developer and I read that function's description in the Command Reference I would have no idea that I cannot use it against VFP data.
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>Simply put, if the function is limited in its application to EXTERNAL data sources that support "updategrams", then the documentaion should say so.

This function creates updategrams of buffered VFP tables/cursors. I don't see how it's related to the 'EXTERNAL data sources'.