What is a "tab"? Tab control? Tab on a navigation form? Tab view of a single form? Oddly enough I was just "complaining" elsewhere about M$'s wanton use of "tab".
If it's a tab on a navigation form, what happens if you open the form directly, close and reopen? Data is there? When you select another tab, the current form/report is closed and another one opens. If you go back to the prior tab, the object has to reload. Unless you are running code the 1st time you 'open' the form but not subsequently I can't think of why a nav form would do this. This would include not running the pt query when you go back to the form.
The more we hear silence, the more we begin to think about our value in this universe.
Paraphrase of Professor Brian Cox.