Sergey

My boss promised me VFP9 months ago but as yet, no joy :-)

>Terry,
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>In VFP8 and later you could use SYS(2017) function to create record checksums and then compare them.
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>>Thanks for getting back. What I want is to compare 2 tables, side-by-side, record by record. If I detect any difference in one then I want simply to overwrite the matching rec in the other table with it.
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>>As such it would be great if this were a totally generic process, where I just need to feed the 2 tables.
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>>Background: I have my VFP tables and copies of them, in FoxPlus format, which are used by MapInfo GIS. Now the GIS tables can be interrogated with an "Infotool" that pops up details from a selected record/object on the map. Any of these details can be changed in my VFP app, and I do an update to the GIS tables when the mapping session is invoked, to ensure the latest data are displayed.
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