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Can I append and copy at the same time?
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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01499518
Message ID:
01499521
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>>Hi,
>>
>>The title of the thread does not convey what I am trying to do. I just could not put it all in a sentence.
>>
>>Here is what I am trying to do.
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>>I have a cursor filled with a Cursor Adapter object that has so many records (practically from 1 to 10).
>>I want to insert new records into the cursor for each existing record and copy all fields except two 2 fields: PK column/field and another field. I was thinking about using SCAN - ENDSCAN but if I keep adding a record on each loop of the SCAN, I will never get out of the SCAN loop.
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>>Any other suggestions, please? TIA.
>
>insert into (CA.Alias) (field1, field2, ...) select field1, field2, .. from (CA.Alias)
You just beat me to the solution. I just thought about exactly the same and tried to update my initial message when I realized that someone must be posting reply to mine. I think what you suggest will works. Thank you very much.
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