>>>Look at the COPY TO command; the COPY FILE command makes a copy of the file.
>>
>>Thank you. I also found that I can use a SQL Select as
>>
>>
>>select * from mytable into table ("anothername")
>>
>
>true, but if you need to tweak slightly in maintainance, for instance also copying index file or switching type of file the clauses of copy to command handle the *table* in a more object oriented way. SQL select is only better if you need to add/tweak some columns
In this case I need to "copy" the records to a "backup" table. The original table is then zapped and re-filled. And just in case, I like to have a backup of this table. I usually name the backup table as the real table name + date time stamp.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham