People. Any help appreciated. My dbexport works fine. However the dbimport fails to complete. The reason is that the sql file has a "create view" in it that is dependant on a table that dosn't get created until later on in the sql file! O.K. so I re-arrange the sql file and the import works. My question is basically 1) why does the export behave in this way? and 2) can I do something to modify it's behavior? I suppose i wondering how dbexport works in the first place. (informix 7.23) Thanks.