I'm confused by your response. Are views being used? IF so, keep views in their own DBC and create the DBC on each user's hard drive. This error typically occurs when multiple users create a view from the dbc simultaneously.

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>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.
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>>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?