>Thanks for the quick response(s)...I haven't been using views, but now seems like a good time to get acquainted with them.
This is both worthwhile, and easy. For a start, a view is very similar to a cursor. Actually, I think you could say it IS a cursor. The only difference with traditional cursor is that changes can be written back to the underlying tables.
HTH, Hilmar.
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