I have a friend (no really, this isn't some lame way of telling you about me but trying to hide that by ... ) I have a friend, and at his company they have an Oracle database with tables and data. We'll call it Database A and they have another Database B that has views across dblinks to each of the tables in Database A. The data team says that this protects Database A from bad queries. So can anyone think of any possible benefit from this arrangement? Will administration be easier, queries faster, performance more predictable? Anything? >>> This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, >>> professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for >>> the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the >>> information in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the >>> sender. CEG-IP1