Well, it seems to me that you'd be trying to recreate a table that the other instance is using. An obvious conflict.

If you don't really need a physical table, perhaps creating a temporary cursor (SELECT * INTO CURSOR MyCursor) instead would suit your need?

HTH

>I use an select statement into a table to populate my grid (recordsourcetype= alias). The problem is that when I open a second instance of my exe the program halts I'm getting a FILE ACCESS DENIED from the select statement. What can I do to correct this?
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>TIA
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>Sam