A remote view requires a DBC. The CursorAdapter does not. Also, the cursor adapter can be used for OLE DB data access. Remote View requires ODBC. You have more control over the update statements with CA over RV.

>I'm using ODBC data sources only and have a created temporary VFP database
>container for remote views.
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>It there any differences to create a updatable cursor on remote data using
>between remote view and cursoradapter.
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>It seems that
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>CREATE SQL VIEW myVIEW REMOTE ...
>USE myVIEW
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>and using cursoradapter cursorfill() method
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>both create updatable remote cursor
>which has exactly the same features and limitations.
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>The only exception seems to be that remote view can be used in an application running on Windows 95 (using VFP 7). So I consider remote view to be more portable.