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>>>Hi Everybody,
>>> Learnt from error message that command Alter Table mycursorname Drop a_column_name is invaild to a cursor,but i sometimes do need so to do.
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>>Aaron,
>>You can use 'alter table' with cursors.
>>Steven,
>>To be able to use 'alter table' you need a readwrite cursor, cursor should not be an SPT cursor and should not have any long field names in it. ie:
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>>select * from customer into cursor myCursor readwrite
>>alter table myCursor ;
>> drop column contact ;
>> drop column title ;
>> drop column address
>>browse
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>>Hi Cetin,
>> Unfortunately, what i mentioned happenedly is for SPT cursor.the fields of cursor are dynamically generated at side of SQL Server,in which there is a redundant column as relationship field,couldn't be removed at side of SQL.
>>Thus i want to remove it at VFP client.Any further ideas on conveting a SPT cursor into a general cursor? Certainly, it can be clone as real dbf then generate another cursor,but i don't like this way.:)
>
>>Why you can't remove on SQL side? Even if you can't why there is a need to remove?
>
>Hi Cetin,
> I really can't ;),because there are 2 PIVOT temp tables combined into one cursor linked with mentioned primarykey field with dynamic SQL statement,like this :-"... Select a.*,b.* from #temp_1 a left join #temp_2 on a.keyfield=b.keyfield"
> For 2nd why,the result cursor is friendly displayed to user bound to a grid,and user will export it into a excel file.Certainly, I already could remove the column with grid control workaround. I just want to seek for another best bet based on background cursor.
> I have been getting many knowledge from your answers to other asker,many thanks to you.

You really can:)

Select a.FieldName1, a.FieldName2, ;
 b.FieldNameWhatever1, ;
 b.FieldNameWhatever2 as WhateverYouLike ;
 from #temp_1 a left join #temp_2 on a.keyfield=b.keyfield

2nd as you said you can control what you grid would show and what would bve sent to excel. Excel pivot tables are easily created with ADO transfers and your cursor need not be open after you send.
Cetin