Thanks all. Now I get it.

>>>After reading the VFP docs about free tables, it appears to me that if I have a dbc open, then if I use a table, its automatically put in the dbc.
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>>>Here is my concern, I have a dbc open during my applicaiton, I open the actual dbf's and use them, close them etc. but there is this part of my application, where I think it would be wise to not use the dbc, and have each user have a free table on their own computer....Like private data. local data to that user only.
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>>>so really my quesiton is I can use create table free command in code to create a free table. then if a dbc is open, and that free table is used.... does that free table get put in a part of the dbc. ? and if so, is there some way I can tell vfp not to add this table ever to the dbc. ?
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>>>Thanks
>>>Bob Lee
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>>Bob,
>>Free tables or fox2x
> tables are not autmatically put in a dbc. You can close-open them. There are few situations that would make them part of DBC like :
>>add table...
>>create table when a DBC is open
>>Also fox2x tables would remain as is if you don't trigger structural changes like null value support, new data type addition.
>>Cetin
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>Just don't forget to use FREE clause when you create your tables, and they would not pollute your database. We had this problem few times...