I think Chris hit it on the nose. If you have the table explicitly open and buffered in the same data session as the view, the view will update the table buffer and *not* the underlying physical data.
Advice: Don't open up the base table in the DE at all if there are updateable columns in a view with that same table as the source.
>I think you are correct. Let me go try it out.
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