This "feature" has been known for quite a while. Each datasession is supposed to work as independently as a separate user, but it doesn't, I'm sorry to say. AFAIK, this unwanted "sharing" only happens with the ASC/DESC case.
It never got me into trouble, though.
Hilmar.
>Don't know if this is common knowledge but it certainly caused me some grief, if you "Use" two instances of a table with a shared index as in the example code below, both instances have the same index order
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> Use Mytable Again Alias Mytable2 order tag mytag Desc In 0
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>Both instances will now have their index in descending order
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