Excellent advice. Thanks for the clarification - the manual/help is confusing on this point. So then, I _could_ use a named lock (name="#Session.SessionID#" for a type READONLY, and be OK, but for EXCLUSIVE locks, I should use SCOPE="session". Right? Glenn Hunt ghunt at hds.ca <snip> > However, this is only an issue for EXCLUSIVE locks, not read locks. </snip>