>>>>>>I've looked at Help on ALTER TABLE and I don't see if it requires exclusive access or not.
>>>>>
>>>>>Yes it is
>>>>>
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>>>>Is there any other way to change the structure of the existing table?
>>>
>>>Nope, you are changing the table structure :-) not a value of the field.
>>
>>Yes, thanks - for a minute I thought there may be way around it. BTW, how can we set (check) for the default value of the field?
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>ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN TheColum [type and size goes here] DEFAULT .....
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>Check:
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>AFIELDS(laFields,alias)
>lnField = ASCAN(laFields,[FieldName], 1,-1, 1, 1+6)
>? laFields[lnField, 9]
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I thought you can get/set it with CursorGetProp