>>>Hi Edward!
>>>
>>>But you can't open table in DE without opening appropriate DBC. Or I miss
>>>something obvious?
>>>
>>Yes and I meant this. It looks like problem of chickens and eggs.
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>Maybe I am not following both of you, but I have been able to add a table (that is part of a DBC) to a DE without opening the database first. I think I just clicked on the "Other" buttong and selected the table. Could you not then go to the cursor's properties to see the DBC name?
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>Or, with the way things have (not) been going lately, maybe I just dreamed all of this :)

I tried this on my machine and you know what: Database property was filled by dbc name even if I added using 'Other'. May be Fox is smarter than all of us?