I agree with Jim especially when creating high volume web apps where you must serve multiple hits simultaneously with multiple server programs so that a table will be opened and positioned by different users at once.


>>Now that I have begun to skim the suface on Private Data Sessions, I have a basic questions -
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>>Why use them at all??
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>Ken,
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>In my opinion private data sessions are what should be used most of the time. The only exception is for very specific situations where a child fomr needs to access the data of its parent.
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>A private data session sets up a situation where one form cannot interfere with the data environment of any other form. Prior to private data sessions we wrote alot of state saving and restoring code to allow multiple forms to be visible at the same time. With private data sessions none of that code is needed because VFP handles it for us.