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>From my earlier post : :)
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>Check this thread and the thread, that was mentioned in this thread :)
>Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax Re: Find in which Data Session the particular table is open - Urgent help! Thread #430461 Message #430575

Yeah, this is what I ended up doing, though modified just to tell me whether a data session was active or not. I now have my CloneAlias() function working great! Thanks for the response!

JoeK