From: Christian Mack
Date: March 22 1999 12:11pm
Subject: Re: can't edit from some win32 clients
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"Peter F. Brown" wrote:
> 
> Dear Folks,
> 
>    I'm trying to update records from Win95 to local tables on my
> Win95 machine and also remote records running under Linux.
> 
>    I've used a number of different Win95 clients, such as Visual dBASE,
> and some others, and I keep getting the intermittent error message:
> "couldn't perform the edit because another user changed the record"
> (or something to that effect.)
> 
>    Has someone run across this? I know that no one else is using the
> tables. Is it an ODBC problem, or something else?
> 
>    Thanks!
> 
> Peter F. Brown

Hi Peter

You must have one TIMESTAMP and a PRIMARY KEY in each table you use with MS-programs via ODBC.
Without them you get the above error message.

Tschau
Christian