>Hi there,
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> I'm having some trouble scattering and gathering. I have a table and make an exact copy of it using select * from ......
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> The user is allowed to edit the new table and at the end I zap certain records from the old table, scatter from the new and gather in the old.
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> hmmm...Should work no? ;-)
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> But some fields are not showing up in the table when I browse it afterwards.

Are you using vfp? You could do much better using a View instead of the old-fashioned approach you're using...