>So the theory which says that NOFILTER should force it to exist... actually doesn't come into practice.
No, that theory's been shot down completely by now. The NOFILTER clause does just what it says it'll do, it prevents a filter from being put on a table for the result cursor...
Perhaps they should have a new clause (not that it would be very useful) called,
CREATE_DISK_FILE :)
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.