>. Only designated 
> DBA's had Unix level WRITE permissions to the DICT account - 
> so everything was locked down. 

And of course, now that there are the CONV, FMT, COL.HDG and EVAL keywords
in RetrieVe there is no need to use synonym dictionaries for reports, and
thus no real need to give even power users access to the dictionaries.

Before then with products like mvQuery we created reporting accounts
containing file pointers pointing to local dictionaries (contents copied
from the live dictionaries) and to the live data files, to keep the two
views (update and reporting) separate. Then power users could be give update
security to the reporting dictionaries without screwing up anything that
could be used by the live application. 

Brian
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