>>I like the argument for using views. My program will be widely (I hope) distributed with no access to onsite support. Users will tend to be novice and therefore crashes and table corruptions are a real risk (and nightmare).
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>I don't know of any app where table corruption is not important. However, I don't see how using views can help prevent this. I'm willing to be educated, though. :)

I read your other thread about the tables being open if the view is open and thought "d'oh", ofcourse they are. Well back to the fingernail biting...