Ken

>>Tell me ONE reason why you would choose to use an RV?
(excepting my previous acknowledgement of short term solution for Multiple back-ends or local view based app upsize)<<

I'm afraid you've built such a bias into the question as to render it unanswerable!

Why "excepting" those issues?

Multiple backends is a serious concern- especially in these days of distributed data.

And why "short term"?

Here's one for you: say you have a finance package that may run using VFP tables for small clients but may also need to run on Oracle, SQL Server or others like Interbase to be acceptable to bigger clients.

How will you do it? Make sure the "easier maintenance" claim for SPs features in your reply.

Regards

JR