>>With VFP7 it takes less than a second to update the table.
>>With VFP8 it takes more than 3 minutes
>
>Have you checked out SET TABLEVALIDATE? This might be what's slowing you down.

Out of curiousity, Garrett, I'm guessing that you suspect header locking, right?
If so I guess we'd agree that using 2 for TABLEVALIDATE would be to proposed 'solution'.

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