Hi, Evelyn.

>what is the better way to hide a table from my users?
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>i tried "including" these tables in my project but i need to write to these tables so i get a "cannot update cursor".
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>i do not want to simply hide the table by changing it's properties. can anyone help me?

If you can't go to a real database engine, you can isolate access to the DB trough a server component. This isn't as hardly as it sounds. Take a look at my article:
A poor man's database server.

Hope this helps.