>>Hallo Cetin !
>>Thank you for your quick answer, but i'm not quite sure wether your answer has something to do with our problem?
>>
>>We have no problems with our local foxpro cursors
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>>We send an sql-command to an external maxdb server to load a record into a form !
>>
>>When inside the IDE the "automatic transactions checkbox" in extras-options-remotedata is marked, foxpro does an automatic "commit" after each sql-command.
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>>so our search command (select ...... from .... with lock optimistic) creates a look entry in the
>>maxdb locks table and the automatic commit deletes the lock entry immediately
>>
>>when we uncheck the "automatic transactions checkbox" in extras-options-remotedata and do the same select command a look entry in the maxdb locks table is created and can be used for our problems until we do an expicit "commit" later
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>>our problem is, that this wanted behavior only works, when we start the form from the IDE,
>>the exe still seems to do an autocommit ????????
>>
>>Best Regards
>>Albert
>
>Albert,
>When transactions are set to manual I only saw it autocommit if the connection is closed (bug I think and might be fixed in VFP8 or later).
>Cetin

Albert,
Tested under VFP8 SP1 and bug still exists. As soon as connection closed an explicit Commit tran gets to server. Instead of depending on it I think it'd be better to explicitly start your transactions with 'begin tran'.
Cetin