>>Are you aware that this happened on plain dbfs? No ;DBC, no sofisticated buffering is going on! Just that the data were not flushed in the good old dos sense. And btw, from other stations, I did get the correct information back for sql select ...
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>>I persist. Scary _and_ weird.
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>>Marc
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>Marc, it may be related to a problem I just posted. (It's in 'Troubleshooting', thread '91327') about data not being available even when a table is closed and re-opened. If I learn anything, I'll pass it on.
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>Barbara (no help, just sympathy)

Did I mention that UNLOCK solved the problem? The incriminated record was locked before the update.

... and Barbara, in these difficult times, sympathy _is_ help. :)

Marc