Kevin,
I appreciate your $0.02 :) Thanks for your examples.

Sincerely,
Einar
>Hey, Einar,
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>Just wanted to jump in with my two cents (everything Bonnie said is right-on)
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>I generally use statics for two things...variables/settings that get set at the beginning of the app and don't change, and local look-up tables (as Bonnie said, datasets that get used throughout the app)
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>An example of the first is when a user signs on with a user ID and Password - if the authentication succeeds, I pull down the full name of the user, so that I can display the full name on different forms/reports throughout the app. No need to re-retrieve it from SQL everytime.
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>Second example is a table of status codes that might be used in several forms (for pick-lists, lookup-tables, etc.) I pull down the table at the beginning of the app, and store it as a static datatable.
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>Kevin