Coming in late on this thread, but ...

How about ALTER TABLE and RENAME COLUMN (to 'xxxx') right before the append, and the rename the column back right afterwards?

Just a thought ...



>>>I am trying to append data from various files of varioius formats. for now: dbf, txt, cvs and txt.
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>>Just curious...whats a cvs file?
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>er CSV - one of the COPY TO / APPEND FROM formats
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>>>I have tried using
>>>SET FIELDS TO ALL EXCEPT PKAD
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>>>but the APPEND FROM command seams to ignore it.
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>>>APPEND FROM (LCFILNAM) FIELDS ALL EXCEPT PKAD
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>>Try APPEND FROM (LCFILNAM) FIELDS EXCEPT PKAD
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>I get error #10 "Syntax error." Can you give an example?