Hi Caroline,

Can't you have a simple datetime field in the local database the holds the date and time that the last download was performed. It would then be a simple case to compare this value against the datetime of your server db and download it if necessary.

Mace

>Martin
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>Thanks for that but what I'm actually after is a quick and easy way of indicating that the local copy of my program needs to upload, from the server, a new copy of the database (that just contains views) when I've changed/added a view definition.
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>Is that clearer?
>Thanks for any ideas.
>Caroline