>>Hi,
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>>I think I can sent two command to SQL Server from VFP app (using SQLEXEC()) but I am not sure what separator to use. Should it be semi colon? For example if I want to alter a column and then set a value into this column, can I do the following:
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>>cSqlCmd = "alter table MyTable alter column MyFld1 char(30); update MyTable set MyFld1 = repl('0',30) where len(MyFld1) = 0"
>>nRetunr = SQLEXEC(nConn, cSqlCmd)
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>>Will the above work? TIA
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>>UPDATE. I ran it and it works.
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>Yes, you can and should use semicolon. You can also use text endtext to put commands in multiple lines to improve readability.
What would be an exmaple of my string above using 'text / endtext'?
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