>>>I have an 'old' table, and a 'new' table (updated structure, new fields, validation rules, etc). I need to copy all of the records from the old table into the new. Most of the field names are the same, and all the new fields are placed at the end. Is there an automatic way to do this, or will I have to write a procedure? The full table has about 75 fields, and +/- 100,000 records. (Yes its normalized, just happens to be a big table). Thanks.
>>>
>>>Erik
>>
>>APPEND FROM ... FIELDS ...
>>will do this job.
>To handle the fields with different names I would...
>
>SELECT *, oldfieldname1 AS newfieldname1, oldfieldname2 AS newfieldname2, oldfieldname3 AS newfieldname3 FROM olddbf INTO CURSOR QUERY
>
>SELE 0
>USE newdbf
>APPEND FROM QUERY

Thanks. Looks like this is what I'll have to do. I was hoping for something that would map the fields according to order in the table, so I could avoid naming all of the different fields, If I mistype anything, this could turn into a very long ordeal because of the size of the table and the number of records involved