Stephens, Chris wrote,on my timestamp of 27/03/2009 2:27 AM:
Do other people on the list have to contend with this issue?
Yup...
Have you gotten the developers to agree to limiting their use of views in this way?
I found physical threats worked very well.
Have any of you successfully dealt with the issue and if so, what arguments did you make that allowed for that?
No more than one level of view. View on view guarantees them one place: the door. Works wonders. -- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l