In Delphi, is TDataSet thread safe?

Question

I\'d like to be able to open a TDataSet asynchronously in its own thread so that the main VCL thread can continue until that\'s done, and then have the main VCL thread read

Answer 1

Most TDatasets are not thread safe. One that I know is thread safe is kbmMemtable. It also has the ability to clone a dataset so that the problem of moving the record pointer (as explained by Jim McKeeth) does occur. They're one of the best datasets you can get (bought or free).