>>Of all the suggestions made here, the one that has worked best for me across all versions of VFP is
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>>select * from cursor you want to append from into cursor c_AddThese NOFILTER
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>>select targetcursor
>>append from dbf("c_AddThese")
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>>That's because the select * command allows you to join from many tables, do filtering and change field names to match the target cursor all in one step.
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>>The final append from command is as simple as it can get.
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>Mike,
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>Thank you for your suggestion. I might try it and compare with the one INSERT-SQL command. My main goal is to make the resulting cursor filled as fast as possible. Secondly, if I switch the database to SQL Server, I would like to make the code work there (I am sure with some minor modifications) too. I don't think APPEND FROM is a valid syntax in SQL Server, although I may be mistaken.


Using INSERT SQL the way Fabio showed would work in both VFP and SQL Server without modifications. You also eliminate a need of extra cursor.

Mike, for new development I would suggest you to use insert into tablename select from myOtherTable syntax. The speed should be the same or even quicker to do in one step instead of two.