I have a co-worker with whom I am working on a client/server project. My co-worker has no experience with client/server, but thinks that views should never be used. She beleives the entire application should be written with SLQ Passthrough calling stored procedures. The rational is that when VFP dies, the next client (VB??) would simply pickup by calling the same stored procedures. Beyond that, the backend data would be read only (data warehouse), therefore, the argument for using views at all are completely irrelevant.

Needless to say, I was completely flabergasted. However, her beliefs are taken seriousely by management who doesn't know any better. I tried to explain the power of views, and that all clients access remote data using some form of view. I also argued that SQL Passthrough has a place in client server development, but I would never use it to call only stored procedures to get data to the client.

This was not acceptable. This could completely kill the project. Do other people suffer this kind of insanity? Am I doomed to a life of hell? Can anyone come up with cogent argument of when views are appropriate and why, and when SQL Passthrough is better?