Well I'll be - I thought about trying this but rejected it out of sheer laziness. But it appears to have worked.

many thanks!

CREATE VIEW dbo.vw_datasets_Attributes AS

select ds.PK_datasetid, ds.datasetname, ds.dataformat,

ds.owningoffice_ID, ds.datasetnotes,ds.responsibilityOf, ds.status,

ds.display, ds.system_id,...