We did the retry... and still have the problem. This smells of a network problem. This application has been running for 3 years, and we have had this error several hundred times in the last few days. Before that, it happened very rarely according to the log. Thanks for the info.

>Have you tried this:
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>Re: Error 1709 object in use error Thread #661693 Message #661773
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>>The error definition for this error talks about another user modifying a database object and not having access as a result. I have a client that is getting this error a LOT lately (the last few days), and it does not add up. This happens when starting the application and using views.
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>>The only knowledgebase article I could find says to retry after the error - while this might work, I would really like to know the actual cause. Does anyone have any personal experience with this problem?