I strongly advice against using Alias since it's a reserved word, use MyAlias or something else.

>If memfield length is 254 or less

>Select codedesc as Name, PADR(memofield,254) as Alias
>from codetable c
>where c.coddtype = "somegroup"
>

>
>>
>>I'm working on an application that has a lot of data in Memo fields, and I'm trying to speed up an Import program. The case in point is:
>>
>>Decode Table with
>>
>>Codetype Codedesc Memofield
>>somegroup insurance name Alias' of insurance name
>>
>>
>>Currently the code is creating a cursor (Name c(30), Alias c(30)) and using a "do while" loop is calling a UDF to pull the data from the memofield and then push the data into the cursor fields.
>>
>>What I'm hoping I can come up with is something like
>>
>>Select codedesc as Name, memofield as Alias
>> from codetable c
>>where c.coddtype = "somegroup"
>>
>>and have 'Alias' be a character field, not a memo field
>>
>>
>>>>I'm really, REALLY hoping that VFP has come up with a way to get data out of memo fields within an SQL statement. I'm really, REALLY thinking I'm going to be disappointed, but y'all have surprised me before.
>>>
>>>What exactly is your problem with memo fields?