Sorry for the late reply. Do you mean in a method of a VFP COM+ component do something like this?:

This.OpenTables()
SUM nValue To lnValue
This.ProcessTable()   && This method would utilize tables opened with OpenTables() method.
This.CloseTables()

TIA

Luis

>That's one way of doing it. If you're going to have multiple calls within a short period of time, you could call a method to open the tables, then another to close them.
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>>I guess I understand it, Does that mean that every time I need to use one or more tables in a method call I have to open the tables at the beginning and close them at the end of the method?
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