>>>>I am sure Foxteam always meant to open another copy of the same database INSTEAD rather than simultaneously.
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>>>If this is the same database, it's probably not allowed to open it twice in the same DS. But if they are two separate databases (one on Disk D and another on Disk G), we have to have a way to open them both and easily differentiate them. Here ALIAS option would be really handy.
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>>Well, I believe they could do it, but they have priorities, and what is the real need in such a feature? How many developers really would use such approach? Isn't it easier to change the application design?
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> I don't know, how we can find out, how important this feature is. It's definitely would be nice to have it. For instance, we have two servers (not to mention each developer's local drive), there we have identical applications and identical databases. One is "Live", another is "Development". We may have situations, when we want to open both databases to compare data in them, e.g.:
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>Open data G:\redp\DBC\Jobs\JobControl alias JobDev
>Open data D:\redp\DBC\Jobs\JobControl alias JobLive
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>use JobDev!Jobs in 0 alias JobsDev
>use JobLive!Jobs in 0 alias JobsLive
>
>etc.

I think this is really from "nice to have" category.
You can easily do the above with just:

use G:\redp\DBC\Jobs\JobControl\Jobs in 0 alias JobsDev
use D:\redp\DBC\Jobs\JobControl\Jobs in 0 alias JobsLive