>Everyone,
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>I'm generating a cursor using "CREATE CURSOR < Name > FROM ARRAY < Array >", but further down the line I want to "Add" a column to the Table. To do this I use "ALTER TABLE < Name > ADD COLUMN < Name > < Type >".
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>The problem is, some of the columns in the table I originally created have names longer than 10 chars and when I add the column with the "ALTER TABLE" command it truncates the other field names to be 10 chars also.
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>How can I add my column and avoid truncating the existing field names?
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>Thanks,
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>- Aaron.

Just as a workaround (if it is not going against your application methodology) you may try to CREATE TABLE instead of CREATE CURSOR, so it will be created with long fieldnames. If you don't want to touch existing database, you may create a temporary DBC for it.