Hello,

"1)I don't like the idea of having a DBC on every client machine. We're talking about a LOT of machines and it'd be a major undertaking to try to keep them all in sync"

could be easily solved with "COPY FILE" the DBC from a known Network directory at the startup of your app ..

"and as eaisly as views get corrupted anyway this is really asking for trouble"

never had one corrupted view ..

"changing a view you're going to end up with a bloated dbc with a zillion deleted records in it"

if you recreate the view you would end up with the deleted records ..
but the class posted don't recreates the view, it just changes it on the fly .. deleted records will not be generated ..

Regards

Christian