Hi Stephen, cool, just a misunderstanding, I haven't used views extensibly either, went from using relations straight to SQL Server and ADO, and to be honest, views can be a pain, specially because of the limitations of the view designer (VFP6), unless you use something else like Erik Moore's eview. Some people seem to have worked successfully with views so I'm assuming they're reliable and fast once you learn how to work with them.

>Hello Jorge
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>I didn't take your comment as a insult or to harsh, the only reason I don't >use views is it feels like I have a lack of control and I don't know them >very well. I agree a filter can be very slow (I learned it the hard way). >I like the control I have with a locally stored table and the gathering of >data in the beginning and the update at the end are the only places where >the code could go slow and again with views I just don't what to expect.
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