>>- Have a separate set of meta data for each DBC but programmatically combine them for a given application. For example, you might have set 1 for DBC1, set 2 for DBC2, etc. For APP1, which uses DBC1 and DBC2, you'd combine set 1 and set 2 into a set just for APP1. For APP2, which uses DBC1 and DBC3, you'd combine set 1 and set 3 into a set just for APP2. Combining meta data tables is easy, using code similar to the following:

use DBC1\COREMETA
>copy to APP1\DATA\COREMETA with cdx
>use APP1\DATA\COREMETA
>append from DBC2\COREMETA
>*same thing for SDTMETA

The thing to remember in this case is never let SDT validate a DBC into an app-specific set of meta data, only into the "master" copies (eg. in DBC1\ and DBC2\ in my example above).
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If I am appending these files together, will I have a problem because both files have the same ID (in COremeta the lid field)?

Sandi