>>You cannot keep the remote view on the SQL server, because it is a part of VFP database which may be on local PC or somewhere on the network.
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>ok - so the best and the fastest way to do this, is to have the remote views
>on the user's pc, delete the contents of the remote views when the user
>exits the program, and update the views when the program is loaded.
>it that right?

You can do this, but I don't understand why would you delete the data on the server every time the view is populated?