>Thanks for all considerations.
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>More, can i use some alias sort of thing to refer the databases that are open in current vfp session. If i m opening two DBs in a session then how to distinguish if both the databases have same name. (Obviously databases are at different locations).
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>Thanks again.

No, you cannot assign an alias to a database. See Thread #520670, Thread #511922, Thread #540872 Message #541823