SET DELETED ON/OFF can have a big effect on opening a views with the NODATA clause.

Try opening the views two different ways...

With SET DELETED ON, and SET DELETED OFF.

Guy



>I conducted a speed test on opening a database, some tables and some views, here were my results (from an NT Server):
>
>1 Database 1 Second
>8 Tables(some free, some from database 12 Seconds
>3 Views (with NODATA) 18 Seconds
>
>My main concern is the views, how come the views take longer to open the tables even with NODATA issued? surely they should be quicker - or is it not?
>
>Comments welcome
>Kev