I guess I'm not real sure what the concern is regarding a DBC. It has its advantages, and I'm fairly certain you can make it read-only to help prevent possible corruption.

My vote is to use the DBC...

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>But now we have autoincrement in VFP 8.0, right? Please tell me how do I create a view without a DBC.
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>Thanks for your comments.
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>Alex