For displaying data, remote views are fine. However, you lose the control that you would otherwise have with SPT. By sharing connections, you can use the remote view for displaying and capturing updates, and use SPT to actually do the updates to the backend..

>>However, I would not rely on remote views to access remote data.
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>John,
>I'm not challenging your assertion, just curious. I'm at a fork in the road with a rather large maintenance project. We are using complex SPT to update several SQL servers. I was thinking of showing the team Remote View technology to help speed up development. I've never used remote views in an environment like this, so I'm curious as to why you opine against them.
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>Marty