Michel the data is fine. It the name of the field that get cut to 10 chr not the data. ( in the select I have MyLongNameFeild1 and in the cursor I have MyLongName)

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>>We are doing a transfer of data from VFP database (DBC) via a remote view with ODBC. What we are doing is transfer data to an another table.
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>>Select ViewFld1 as MyLongNameField1 from ViewRemote into curosr MyTmpCursor
>>select MyTable
>>Append from dbf("MyTmpCursor")
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>>The result of my cursor cut the field name to 10 chr. (MyLongName)?
>>Why? Is this normal?
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>Is the ViewFld1 length of the first record 10 characters? If this is the case, you might want to force it to be the max length of the field.