>>I've got an application where the database resides on a shared network folder.
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>>When more than one user accesses the program the app slows down or continuously displays the 'running query' progress bar over and over again.
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>>All of the forms are running in private data sessions.
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>>I use 'select ... into cursor tmpxyz' statements to load combo boxes, etc. on some of the forms.
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>>With just one user accessing the program it runs okay although it runs much faster on the machine which has the database locally.
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>>Any suggestions?
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>>Thanks!
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>First quick verification - do you have NOFILTER or READWRITE clause in all your select statements?

No, I don't use those... They are something like:

select field1, field1 from table where ... into cursor tmp

:)