Supposing your form has a grid which displays parent and child info about the main table, e.g. INVOICE has, say, a part #, but the part desc is on the PARTS table. You want to display the part # and Part desc in the grid. A view incorporating the 2 tables would be "advantageous" here.
>is there any advantage or disadvantage to use views instead of tables in Data Environment?
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>I think:
>advantage: in case of power failure, the tables won't corrupt
>disadvantage: in multi-users environment, the data is not real-time
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>but I don't know if they are true.
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>please advise
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>regards,
>
>Jerry
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