>Would I be better off removing buffering from the tables and relying on the view to resolve update conflicts?
Yes - you don't need to use buffering on both.
>Do you know of some good resources for reading up on using views?
I like Doug Hennig's book "Visual FoxPro Data Dictionary."
Nick Neklioudov
Universal Thread Consultant
3 times Microsoft MVP - Visual FoxPro
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