>I would guess it may be some settings difference between IDE and exe which causes different set of records returned. Do you explicitly specify SET ANSI and SET DELETED in your application?

I only specify values for the set deleted command. Still, I played a bit with set ansi and set deleted to no avail. To me it doesn't make any sense this situation: a view that only works as long as there are two or more records in the underlying table.

Thanks