At 15.36 06/06/2000 -0000, you wrote:

>Hi, SQL gurus
>There's anyone that know the mean of this term?
>I'm envolved on a discussion about this requirement that will be an
>ANSI Requirement.
>I didn't never see any of this matter!
>Can IB do this?

You can make a so called "dummy update" in order to lock a row,
or you can select the consistency isolation method that will lock the
entire table
which you are operating on.
Bye
marco Lauria