>>So far it is instant. But, this requires extra approaches in the code to consider those relationships at various locations.
Right. Once upon a time there was a product called VFP whose Remote Views could have taken care of that so you wouldn't even need to know whether there's one table or two: but lets not go there. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
