>Hi Everyone,
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>I have routinely used a two table view to delete a parent record and it's child records. Have used the view designer to do this and it works fine. But have just run into a case where I have a parent table and this table has 4 child tables related to it.
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>When I tried to work up the view in the view designer, it seems to create it okay (somewhat) - and I used LEFT OUTER JOINS as not all the child tables will always have child records.
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>Anyhow, could not save the view to try it out. Should I be able to do this in the view designer or do I have to do a hand-coded view? or maybe I have to do 4 different views, one for each child table?
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>Thanks,
>Albert Gostick

Albert,
My personal suggestion: Never use a view to update/delete/insert more than one base table.

Next simple or complex I suggest to create views in code (and generally include FORCE clause so designer can never open it and screw).
Cetin