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  • Since Lynn is unable to post code I took the liberty of tossing together an example of how you could do as an itvf. This is certainly a lot easier than generating 20+ views.

    create function SomeFunctionName

    (

    @Distr_Code varchar(4) --or whatever the appropriate datatype is

    ) RETURNS TABLE AS

    RETURN

    SELECT * --or whatever columns are appropriate

    FROM PFCMST

    WHERE Distr_Code = @Distr_Code

    Then it is really simple to use.

    select *

    from SomeFunctionName('A113')

    Or maybe you need to pull the Distr_Code from another table.

    select *

    from SomeOtherTable sot

    cross apply dbo.SomeFunctionName(sot.Distr_Code) sfn

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