Hi Blanco,
With just 26 machines you can always opt for online as there wont be much issues unless every transaction creates some heavy processing.

"internal consistency error" can be because of many reason. Please ellaborate the error occurence.

Aashish



>Configutation:
>POS terminal = Win98, vfp8 database
>Server = Win2000 server,vfp8 database
>
>Currently we have an installation of a POS system in a supermarket with just 26 terminals. I send the data to the server batch mode, after end of day of each terminals. When the terminal is sending the data to the server, we encounter "internal consistency error" eventhough the data in the server is not corrupted and the indexes are in good state.
>
>Which do you think is a better approach:
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>1. Online - Ill save the data to the server every transaction which will not clog the network
>
>2. Batch Mode - Revise the existing batch mode sending of data (all transactions of the daty) to the server
>
>thanks for the advice