I've got a class method that builds a SQL statement on the fly based on metadata. The field list has to be built dynamically before issuing the SQL call, as in:

SELECT &lcFieldList ;
FROM &lcTable ;
INTO CURSOR lvNormalized

The field list has to be dynamically built from a table of field mappings to normalize the data before moving it to a data warehouse. It all works fine, the hard part is done. But early on in testing I found that the lcFieldList variable can end up exceeding 254 characters, which generates an error. I've gotten around it in a cheesy kind of way, but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on a more permanent solution.

TIA