>>>Is it possible to SQL-Select all fields except 1 ? Something like:
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>>>SELECT * except somefield from . ...
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>>>I have a large table with many fields and want to retrieve all but one field.
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>>See download #10041 and anything from Frank Dietrich that's related to intellisense - there's a macro which will build a Select statement for any alias that's open while you're typing. So you can use the FIELDLIST macro and have all the fields listed, then just erase the one field you want erased.
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>>Another way to get the same is to
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Select * from ... into cursor tmp ... nofilter readwrite
>>alter table ... drop column somefield
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>>Don't remember the exact syntax for the drop. If you want to avoid getting the field even temporarily (because it's too long, or because it's a memo), then you need a full select statement. You may use Frank's macro, or build a field list as a string with that one field omitted, then use such a field list in a script that you'll execscript(), or run as a macro.
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>Have you ever done this? Every time I've tried to alter table with a cursor I get an error that says it is an invalid operation for a cursor.

The cursor must be read-write, then it's "legal".