>As I've learned, it surely seems to.
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>But I wonder why when the table does not have NULL permissable in any of its fields. I would have thought that an APPEND BLANK in that case would surely put theequivalent of EMPTY() into each field.
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>Regards
>JimN
I pressume the reasoning of the VFP team is something like this: "the previous value for this field is undefined". This makes sense, in a way...
As for programming in actual practice, I found I had to use NVL() in some cases, to avoid certain error messages.
Regards, Hilmar.
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