>>Can you describe your data set and are you using local or remote views to access the data?
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>I have one database with 5 tables. I use these tables as views. these database
>lives on a network drive running novell...rob

Can you tell me a little more about your views?

Does a single view gather info from all five tables?

On average what is the size (in records) of a view and what is the record length in bytes?

Are the tables related via surrogate keys that are integer or compressed character based?