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Help, my program hangs on [I]Lock[/I]/[I]Reread[/I]/[I]Begin_Transaction[/I]! That, or some sort of variation is probably the single most revisited topic in the forums over all the years. Probably about 99% of all instances with any problem like this is due to deadlocks with alias files.

This is not related to SQL style deadlocks that are resolved by the server, but an inherent complication from alias files/tables that is mostly only seen with the embedded(DataFlex) database. It's ...