>There is a measurable difference in performance when more than one person is accessing a VFP database. The test that I used is a procedure looping through the largest table we have using an index. The procedure was setup to run simaltaneous on two workstations at the same time.
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>What if anything can be done to better manage this issue.

If you dont need update access, open the table with USE .. NOUPDATE, that will speed access as no locking / changes detection takes place.

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