>>>>>cCursor1 must be read-write cursor for this to work.
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>>>>The customer claims that this worked before and now stopped working. Is it at all possible that the syntax APPEND FROM (as I have) could work?
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>>>The syntax you have is correct and it should work as is. However, INSERT-SQL is 100% bullet-proof and APPEND FROM is 99,9% bullet-proof.
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>>What makes the APPEND FROM to be 0.01 less bullet-proof? What has changed (which possibly have changed) that made this code stop working? I realize that you may not have the answer but I just tried the program on my computer (with the old APPEND FROM code) and it works. Thank you for your help.
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>I think there may be two reasons
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>1. The cursor was created without NOFILTER keyword and produced the filter on the actual table
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>2. Something is wrong with the temp path (say, too many files or temporary not-accessible).
I already thought about your point 2 and send a message to the customer to clean up her TEMP folder.
As far as your point 1. Does NOFILTER apply to SQL called from SQL Server? I thought it was for VFP database only.
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