On Aug 9, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Mark Stanton wrote: > VFP's view wizard lets (in fact seems to want) me to identify key > fields in > all the tables in the view, and if it knows that, how far off > updating more > than one of the tables can it be?
Let's think about a real-world example. You have a table of employees, and a table of positions (i.e., the various jobs). You have a view that contains the employee and their position. You modify the employee's phone number, and that updates back to the employee table - no problem. Now you modify their position: what should happen now? If they were "sales" and you change it to "manager", do you really want to change the entry for "sales" in the position table? If you do, everyone who is in sales will now be managers - hardly the scenario you want. -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.