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A valid use for this property is when an event or stored procedure alters the values of controls, and this is intended to be reflected in the contents of @RECORD associated with the form, for purposes of symbolic calculation. As previously mentioned, the contents of @RECORD will not be used at WRITE time. Instead the form I/O logic extracts the values from the controls themselves to output to the database. @RECORD is a secondary and possibly partial (in the case of multi-table forms) representation of the contents of the controls.
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