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>With REFRESH you can requery only current record or a range around the running record.
>
>A simple example:
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>- put a RV into a grid with 10 visible rows
>- on Column1.DynamicFontShadow = "EMPTY(REFRESH(10,10,m.this.Recordsource))"
>

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>You can have a automatic refresh for the backend data,
>without a big impact even if reccount(m.this.Recordsource)>100000.
>
>Other examples:
>- monitor of shared dynamic data,
>- check when remote rows locked are unlocked
>- write a shared data area for intraclient communications.
>- refresh a VFP cache database for the backend database
>- Etc....

Hi Fabio,

So it's useful for refreshing data in the background? Do you have one more useful example? Have you used REFRESH() in a real life application?

Thank you very much.

Luis