>Hi.... I'm a new user of foxpro and i have a very simple question... is there any logical reason to build a view that is the exact replicate of the table??
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>Thanks

There is no reason to do this. The only real advantage of local view is that it's natural buffer for the data you work (change) with. However, user is not going to change whole table (all records) at a time, so including all records into a view is not reasonable (and could be extremely slow).