>And I am not at all opposed to views or advocating people abandon them. I'm sorry if I've implied so. I am indeed transistioning to them. Since I'm not using any third party frameworks or development tools, and since I'm the lone developer, I realize it was stupid (20-20 hindsight*s*) to bite off such a big chunk all at once--in addition to my actual scope of work.
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>My point really just boils down to this: that parameterized views/SQL syntax is a non-trivial brain-shift from xBase. I think we do a disservice (sp?) when we forget that what we do easily now, wasn't so easy in the beginning. Maybe it's obvious, but I'm not so sure that it is...

I completely agree with you. Views are not obvious at all. The SQL syntax is one thing, and then you have to set all the properties. That was really too much for me and that's why I resorted to a third party product.

José