Second best suggestion to date. The one I liked better was to quit trying to use new technology when old tech does the job fine. To wit, I now just do a plain old select -- SQL to get my data, and then use the cursor for the program, instead of making a view. Thanks for giving it some thought, David!

>Todd,
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>You could use a temp dbc to hold your views.
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>>I have a program that needs a special view of the remote database. To allow for changes in the remote database structure, I would like to re-create the view every time I run the program. (Maybe not the best way, but its expedient.)
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>>Will running CREATE SQL VIEW myview multiple times create a bloat? I remember that INDEX ON ... TAG MYTAG run a bunch of times without deleting the tag first would end up making the CDX file grow. Does the same problem exist with .dbc files?