>Sorry if this appears twice - there was a glitch when I posted before so I'm uncertain if my previous post made it.
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>I have a view based on a table : select * from t (v1, say)
>I have a view based upon v1: select * from v1
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>(this is the simplest format and I can reproduce the behaviour by just viewing the views and tables).
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>Issuing a refresh(n) on v2 does not reflect changes to the base table unless I also issue a refresh(n) on the intermediate view (v1).
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>Is this the way VFP works?

you'd have to refresh v1 first, because v2 doesn't directly query the table.