What do you mean, "open table"? How do you choose the "one specific record"? Is the table indexed?

One of the solution is to have a view that should display this "one specific record", something like:
select * from table where exact_index_expression=condition

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>This question will likey seem very simple to many of you. I have a very large free table (> 100 000 records)on our server, with 100 fields in each record. When we need to update only one specific record, it's not a problem to open the table and edit the record at the location we're at now because response time across the network to the server is quick. We have another site some 10 miles away, however, that connects to the server through a T1 connection. If we try to open the table at the remote site, it takes an awwwwwwwwwwwfulllllly long time.
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>How can we send a 'query' from the remote site to the server and retrieve only the record we need, update the record, and then make sure the changes are updated in table on the server?
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>I have tried creating a view, and then doing a "SELECT - SQL" query, but that still seems to open up the entire table.
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>CM