Ed,

Thank you for the reply.

I have been playing with this for the last few hours. Mostly reading. I have noticed that if I have a form opened using the second data session and use a command button to open a second form the data sessions name changes to that of the second form. The tables don't close until I close both forms. The data session is still there (which I want it to be) but is named unknown(2). Why would the data session name change? Does it have to do with the forms datasession property and the datasessionid?

Thanks again for the reply.

>>I have a few questions...
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>>Can you open a second datasession programmatically? If you can please point me in the right direction.
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>You can create a Session object, which is designed to do exactly that; it was added to VFP6 in SP3.
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>>Two...
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>>If you can, and you open a table that is already open in the first datasession. Will the updates from datasession two be seen real time or only after the table in the second datasession closes or not at all?
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>If buffering is in use, changes made in datasession 1 will not appear to the other datasession until the changes are committed via TABLEUPDATE() and the tables/cursors/views referencing the updated table perform a REQUERY() or another operation that references the base table.