>I need to import tables with long column names from an accounting database (btrieve) to tables in a new VFP database (New.DBC). Views for the accounting tables are already defined in a different database (Old.DBC).
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>I wrote a procedure that creates New.DBC and scans Old.DBC to obtain name of all remote views. I though it would be possible to simply SELECT * FROM RemoteView and add the created table to New.DBC, but the created table only has 10 character column names. If a cursor was created instead of a table long names would persist, but then how would you add it to New.DBC?
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>What is the simplest way to import the data with long column names?
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>TIA,
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>Alex

If you created a cursor with correct names, can you just copy structure to the new table which is part of DBC and then insert from the cursor? This is just a thought.