>>>>>is possible to create a calculated field in a VFP table?
>>>>
>>>>As Borislav said, not directly. You could probably do something rules.
>>>>
>>>>Tamar
>>>
>>>Calculated field is present in BROWSE,
>>>I was hoping I had missed something.
>>>
>>>I will use DEFAULT for the INSERT and explicit UPDATE,
>>>but the space in the DBF was the thing I wanted to avoid.
>>
>>BTW why you need it?
>>You can have it in Browse, in Grid in every control you want.
>
>It is not a direct visible table, it is used on background with a data schema,
>automatic calculated fields simplify the code..


As Borislav said you don't need it. In SQL server too, except for the persisted ones, they are just definitions filled in during a select.

You can index a cursor on the fly, and also as Hilmar pointed out you could index on an expression (what a calculated field is).