Could I use those same views and make them readonly, query them and then seek the record in the actual table, do my replace and then issue tableupdate on the actual table. If so would it be better to seek the record and then issue table update or could I seek the record, do a replace and then update the entire table of course I would need table buffering set on in this case. If the query idea isn't a good idea should I just do a set filter instead. Thanks for any ideas on this.