>>>I'm not sure if you're getting it clear from what Cetin is saying. You can have a dbc with views only, and the underlying tables for those views can be your free tables.
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>>I think I twigged last night when I thought back on't. Do you/does he mean views that are like, say:
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>>"Select * from X into ViewName"
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>>i.e. the view becomes just a virtual copy of the table, with SendSQLUpdates?
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>Exactly. Still not sure whether it'd be possible to wrap that into a transaction, but if Cetin says so, I figure it would be.
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>You may also try to do the same with just cursors for copies of the data, and roll your own
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>update myfreetable set fld1=value1, fld2=value2... where ...
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>statements and wrap those in a transaction. It'd be practically the same, and you'd have more control over the where clauses. The trade off is in not bothering with creating the views (which may be good for you, if the structures of the tables vary, and you only care about a few fields), but you pay for that by having to roll your own where clauses.

Roger that, thanks.