Wouldn't
>IF DBUSED("DATABASENAME")
> IF SET("DATABASE")#""DATABASENAME"
> SET DATABASE TO DATABASENAME
> ENDIF
ELSE
OPEN DATABASE DATABASENAME
>ENDIFbe a bit better?
[gdr]
>I just had occasion to change a small udf that did an unconditional OPEN DATABASE to this...
>
>IF DBUSED("DATABASENAME")
> IF SET("DATABASE")#""DATABASENAME"
> SET DATABASE TO DATABASENAME
> ENDIF
>ENDIF
>
>and guess what - the app starts visibly faster and things seem snappier overall. Maybe most programmers and most clients don't care about snappy, but I do. dbused is over 600 times faster than open database. I'll gladly take that.
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