>Ok, lets talk about the Lock contention issue with views in a DBC.
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>After reading this:
>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~CreatingDBCForViews
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>People are saying that when a user access a view (e.g. Requery() ), the DBC is locked.

I thought it was just the view definition record(s). Just long enough to grab the SQL statement. Enough users and/or enough queries and you will get contention.

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>If this is true, then this explains why our 40 user site is experiencing terrible performance on a gigiabit network!
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>Has anyone else looked into this?
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>If everyone had their own local DBC that contained view definitions, would this resolve the contention issue?

It does.