If AutoOpenTables property of DE is set to .T. (default) tables, views, etc included in DE will be open when DE is instantiated.

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>Can anyone fill me in on this - I have a form where I open a table in the DE and set the buffering to zero. I did this so that I do not have to make sure that the table is open anywhere else in the life of the form. But I was having trouble when debugging something else and I error code that seemed to make me think that when a table is included in the DE, that VFP does an implicit open of it as if it were a view. e.g.
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>Table name: quotes.dbf
>Buffering: 0
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>I saw this code flash by when debugging:
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>SELECT * FROM Quotes INTO CURSOR <generated cursor name>
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>I do not have a view in the DE that is even remotely close to that so I am wondering if the DE is opening the table like a view. If so, that is going to take a lot longer than just opening the table via code.
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>Thanks,
>Albert