>Cetin
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>Yes, the network connection is slow, but my question was why do the views take so much longer to open than the tables - when there aren't as many.
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>Kev

Kevin,
I mean that you cannot make an estimate on their load speed when network transfer is also in question. An individual table might open in 5 seconds where 3 views open under a second at times where network traffic gets high-low. Sometimes it takes to transfer a 100 bytes file seconds from a network. There are a lot of factors contributing it.
None of my local tables+views took more than few seconds to open so I never tried to measure timing. IOW you might be right on that.
Cetin