Why do you think that it's expressed in seconds?

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>Thank you, Gregory. But what I don't understand is when I set the IdleTimeout to 10 and then wait a minute (greater than 10 seconds) and then call SQLEXE() with the connection handle I get no error and the data is returned. The way I understand IdleTimeout (from you message and the VFP Help) is the handle obtained initially should be invalid and I should get an error. What am I missing?