>I am bringing in a large remote view from Oracle. Once I get it, I need to manipulate it a lot and want to index it.
>
>CursorSetProp('buffering',1)
>Makes VFP6/SP4 say "Views require either DB_BUFOPTROW or DB_BUFOPTTABLE"
>
>OK. So then I try to make/take the view offline with
>? CreateOffline('universal_vw','d:\wintemp\universal_vw')
>And I can see a .dbf and .tbf. But I get the same error if I try to index it after that.
>
>How to index a remote view?

Set the buffering to 3 [row]. After indexing, you can set the buffering to table [5].