>>>>>>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.
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>>It is not a direct visible table, it is used on background with a data schema,
>>automatic calculated fields simplify the code..
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>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.
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>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).

i cannot do it into sql server. i need minimal traffic on odbc sessions.