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Question

After putting my form in private datasession  I put the environment tables with no buffering and I have no problem opening forms or recording data. Will this bring me trouble later if I implement this for multiuse purposes? I use the flock command to control access to data and they work well.

Answer 1

Maybe you should spend some time on reading and understanding the difference between buffering vs non-buffering, flock() etc. and do many tests before celebrating.

Answer 2

Premature celebrating is the root of all evil in programming :)))

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Answer 3

After putting my form in private datasession  I put the environment tables with no buffering and I have no problem opening forms or recording data. Will this bring me trouble later if I implement this for multiuse purposes? I use the flock command to control access to data and they work well.

Explicit locking is always a source of problems. A better approach is to use local buffering.

Take a look at the following blog articles. They explain how to use buffering in VFP.
Buffering and Locking in Visual FoxPro - an Overview (http://weblogs.foxite.com/andykramek/archive/2005/10/18/948.aspx)
Handling buffered data in Visual FoxPro (http://weblogs.foxite.com/andykramek/archive/2005/12/27/1077.aspx)

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