---->>for creating semi-incremental search based on views >>I set a treshhold (e.g 5 letters etc.) only after which the view get >>queried (and requeried) >>ie only when a small enough subset will be retrieved >> >That's a good idea...I do a similar thing with cursor/queries off of very >large tables to limit the size, so we don't "break the bank" (s) note that you can also set view to "fetch as needed" and the number of record to fetch at a time Arnon