>>>What is the easiest way to append all the fields from one (current) record in a table to a second table? The table I want to copy the fields to contains more fields than the first and the order of the matching fields does not corrispond to the order of fields in the first table.
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>>>I've been using insert but it makes for very large statement because I have to spellout all the fields in both tables.
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>>>Is there something like Append which matches fields in the target table regardless of their order?
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>>>TIA
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>>>Ken Ward
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>>SELECT < 1st Table >
>>SCATTER MEMVAR MEMO
>>SELECT < 2nd Table >
>>INSERT INTO < 2nd TAble > FROM MEMVAR
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>>or use Mark's suggestion.
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>But doesn't insert require the field order of the target table to be the same as order of the memvars? I can't be sure that they are.

The order does not matter. And it is not necessary to select the 2nd table. It is not even necessary to have the 2nd table opened.