You should try a SET RELATION. It should be faster.

select 0
use neg1 order tel
select 0
use neg
set relation to tel into neg1
replace neg.team with neg1.team for not eof('neg1')

>hi all,
>i have 2 tables, first 1 (neg1) have 30021 records, another (neg) have 2630
>i need to replace neg.team with neg1.team where neg.tel=neg1.tel
>i try via this code under, but not work
>
>
>

>
>      select 1
>      use neg1
>do whil .t. .and. !eof()
>scatter memvar
>             m.tel=tel
>             m.team=team
>     select 2
>      use neg
>       replace team WITH m.team FOR tel=m.tel
>     brow
>               select 1
>      skip
>   if eof()
>    exit
>   endif
>enddo
>CLOSE ALL
>

>thanks