Scott,

Try the following:

SET NOTIFY OFF
SET TALK OFF
SET TALK NOWINDOW

HTH

>i'm not using private data sessions. any other ideas??
>
>tft (thanks for trying!)
>
>scott
>
>
>>SET TALK is scoped to the current datasession. If you are using private >datasessions, be sure to initialize SET TALK before any processing is done.
>
>>>Occasionally i notice a progress bar is popping up in the middle of
>>>processing routine.
>>>
>>>I have TALK and NOTIFY set off.
>>>
>>>I'm doing a SQL select and then using Alter Table. I'm pretty sure the
>>>messages are comming from the Alter Table. It's not every time, just
>>>occasionally.