Hi David,
Please go to the properties of the feature class in ArcCatalog, particularly the General tab.
You will see a section called Geometry Properties. What does the Storage part say?
The reason I ask is because views created with feature classes in Binary storage, will display strange behavior. We want to make sure the geometry storage for the feature class is either ST_Geometry or SDO_Geometry for Oracle when creating views in ArcCatalog or ArcMap.
-Sam