>>>It's a bug that was fixed in VFP8. You cannot get correct @@ROWCOUNT value with separate select. You may create a stored procedure witrh those 2 commnads and call it from VFP. Even better, you can return @ROWCOUNT as output parameter in that case. See Re: Can stored procedures return values? Message #876903.
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>>Thanks for you help.
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>I think I was not clear. It's a bug that UPDATE + SELECT don't return cursor in VFP7 and eirlier. However, you cannot get correct @@ROWCOUNT value with separate select in any VFP version. And that's not a VFP bug.

I understood that. I found that @@ROWCOUNT returns the last count which is why I wanted to pass it in as a batch.