Can NOUPDATE prevent a DBF corruption

[ajenat]

Hi
I am wondering, can we prevent a dbf table from corruption (headers) by using it with NOUPDATE (readonly) if I don't need write access.

 

[Chriss Miller]

Well, corruptions only happen when changing a dbf, so when writing. By just reading you'll never corrupt a dbf. So you don't need the NOUPDATE clause. If you use it, you will just ensure there are no changes possible and would identify any code or control (and user interaction with it) that tries to change a record.