I think I finally got a solution from the friends in the dfpug.

Without having to change anything in the view, or doing some complicated checks, you can change the value of sys(3055)

HTH,

Hilmar.

>Hi all,
>
>I have a view in a form that updates a table with 100 fields. The SQL statement is short, as all the fields belong to one table but 2 of them.
>
>When I issue tableUpdate(.t., .f., 'myView'), I get the error "SQL string is too long", and return .F.
>If I force all rows to be updated with tableUpdate(.t., .t., 'myView'), then I don't get the error.
>
>I don't even know how to debug it to know what's happening inside, and why the error goes away when I force the update.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>TIA,
>Javier.