>>OTOH I couldn't understand why you ever need a view for a single table when it's local (actually never understood why someone might need it).
>>Cetin
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>Çetin,
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>I need a view for a single table, when it grows over several scores of thousands of records. The reason has to do with an inefficiency of VFP, when combining a filter and a grid. It seems no R.Optimization is done here.
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>With a view (parameterized, of course), the data is retrieved and shown very fast, compared to a filter.
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>This situation occurs, typically, in parent-child forms (the child form shows all data in a child table that is related to the selected parent record, for instance, all invoices for one client, or all clients in one city).
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>The parent and child grid might be on the same form; I think this doesn't make much difference.
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>Hilmar.

I never have been a fan of filters but there is set key or relation :) Why would I need a view for that.
Cetin