Are you copying the entire DBC? If you copy the table to a free table and then copy it back into the DBC you will lose your field validataion. You need to copy the data, then append into the second DBC.

Barbara

>Our company transfers tables from a sister company at another location to our main server. We do not overwrite the dbc. We are now encountering an unusual problem. One of the tables that we moved has lost all field validation.
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>Is this a known problem and what can we do short of reentering all field validation to fix it.
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>Thanks