James,
Thank you so much for your input. So far, since you are the only one replied, the vote is 100% for building an update statement.
>Dimitry
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>I personally like to build my own update statements so I can Alltrim() the character fields so varchar() columns really work.
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>>As far as getting the data from SQL Server, I like using SQL pass through.
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>>But I am not sure what is a better (preferred or recommended) way of sending changes back to the SQL Server. I am aware of two methods:
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>>1. Making cursor updatable and using TABLEUPDATE()
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>>2. Using cursor (without making it updatable) and then building a SQL UPDATE string based on the cursor/table fields and sending it to the SQL Server using SQLEXEC().
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>>Any suggestions?
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>>Thank you
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