>Larry
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>Looks like it does not work for Oracle. Any other ideas?
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>>>Ok, I give up! Well, I haven't spent too much time on it because I know some of you know the answer. I have tried creating a view against certain tables in SQL Server 7 and VFP chokes with an error message sayign too many columns. I also tried using Sqlcolumns() and got the same thing. Is there a way to iterate through the column names in VFP?
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>>You could use SPT and use the SP_COLUMNS system stored procedure for this. You could iterate through the resulting cursor.
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>>Ex.
>>=sqlexec(lnconn,[exec sp_columns 'mytable'],'c_columns')
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>>HTH.

Change the SQL code to
[select column_name from user_tab_cols where table_name = 'mytable';]

Oracle doesn't have a nice SP wrapper for this stuff.