Hi Alejandro,
After reading from others, I definitely misspoke--or mistyped. I do advocate updating tables by using local views, which does require a DBC. I use free tables, and always update via views.
It's really hard to know how much to denormalize. After a few years you'll know if the structure you chose was right :-)


>By working more on it, and using views, I can get it down to one dbf and one cdx, or could even eliminate the cdx by creating the indexes on open.
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>Certainly from the point of view of the user this seems better. Do you think I am overdoing it? Thanks for your idea.
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>Alex