>>Thanks I'll use that approach. Can you tell me why the times on my DBC/DBX seem to change during the day. What's being updated?
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>>Tnx
>>Terry
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>The only way would be if you are creating, modifying, deleting SQL views, connections, making table structure changes and anything else that would affect the DBC meta data. I just checked one of my apps that has been in use for over a year, and the date time stamp on the DBC, DCX and DCT is exactly the same for all three and has not changed since July [when I made my last DBC change].

That's what I hoped you would say. I'll check my startup views and look for the culpret.
Thanks
Terry