>>That may be, but it's not helpful. This is an enormous application based on the framework. My job as the hired gun is to solve this problem, not tell them that a decade or more of development is based on a framework that some don't like.
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>just a dumb thought ...
>did you check that the tables requeried by the views are USEd?
>I guess so but just in case ...

Yep, and also that the database is open (though my testing shows that in either case, it would be a different error).

Tamar