Um, right. I guess I thought the point of a remote view is you deal with the record set you requested. So, you don't do anything (directly) to the actual data...Am I being particularly dense tonight? I thought that was the one of a data tier.

So, was the original posting meaning that he wanted to _request_ another recordset? Hey! this isn't even the right thread for this. Edward! :-)

>>>Ok, Nancy. BTW, SKIP cannot be applied to back-end remote datasource :).
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>The view is a local cursor/table, so SKIP works. You can't SKIP on the actual data.