I should have asked in the other posting... what other coding would you require?

I use a custom view object which creates the view and applies the appropriate properties to enable updating. This view has been in use for about 4 to 5 years. I assume that it has never had to deal with a LEFT OUTER JOIN before. I don't need the description table to be updated just the source table; but it still needs the fields to be included in the updatefieldlist and tables properties of the cursor.