This may have been answered dow the thread but allow me to interject.

1) You can create a local view on a free table.
2) The table is free but the view is part of the DBC
3) You will have to tweak the view to make it usable.

Go to the files section and download the EViews program. It's great to get the twaek into code.

Here is a good start on a parameterized view, deals with 2.6 data in SBT


CREATE SQL VIEW "LV_CUST" ;
AS SELECT Arcust01.custno, Arcust01.company, Arcust01.contact, Arcust01.city, ;
Arcust01.state, Arcust01.phone ;
FROM f:\pro30\ardata\arcust01 ;
where arcust01.type< '99';
and arcust01.name= ?vp_name;
and arcust01.custno= ?vp_custno;
and arcust01.contact= ?vp_contact

Just putting that into code and running it will create the base of your view. You will need to set all of these too:

DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'UpdateType', 1)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'WhereType', 3)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'FetchMemo', .T.)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'SendUpdates', .T.)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'UseMemoSize', 255)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'FetchSize', 100)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'MaxRecords', -1)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'Tables', 'arcust01')
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'Prepared', .F.)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'CompareMemo', .T.)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'FetchAsNeeded', .T.)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'FetchSize', 100)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'Comment', "")
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'BatchUpdateCount', 1)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST', 'View', 'ShareConnection', .F.)


*!* Field Level Properties for LV_CUST
* Props for the LV_CUST.custno field.
DBSetProp('LV_CUST.custno', 'Field', 'KeyField', .T.)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST.custno', 'Field', 'Updatable', .F.)
DBSetProp('LV_CUST.custno', 'Field', 'UpdateName', 'arcust01.custno')
DBSetProp('LV_CUST.custno', 'Field', 'DataType', "C(6)")


All of the DBSET stuff was generated via EView. You will have to change the update type and updataable but that is easy in the command window.

__Stephen Russell
Memphis VFP User Group

>>>Can I create a VIEW from a free table?
>>
>>Yeah, but the view has to be contained in the DBC.
>----
>Hi Erik,
>I do not want to contained the view in a DBC.
>Can I have a DBC with nothing in it but free tables?