Although all of us here at Quids would love to be able to sql select into a different datasession so save on that XML stuff when communicating solely in VFP.

Well, there are also lots of time when I do it the same way you do - by passing a data session id and switching into the required data session. I do that when lots of data is incolved, for example, with my audit logging class. We also use that technique extensively in the data classes < s >.