>I don't see any reason why this should happen either. With VFP data yeah, there's a big problem with the EXCLUSIVE requirement for files but with SQL Server no such issues.

At this point VFP isn't making it easy for to stay with it. I've went from all 3 tiers being VFP, then changing to ASP.NET as the UI tier (since VFP doesn't have a drag and drop web UI designer), I expect to move the data tier to SQL in a few months because of this DLL unloading problem. Now we are down to only the biz tier in VFP. Who knows, after playing with SQL for a while I will start using stored procedures as part of my biz tier, or C#. < insert gratuitous sigh >