>>>Question: A customer has an active database and wishes to upgrade to our next release. The new release includes a change to the structure of a table, say an additional field tagged onto the end of an existing table. Is there an easy way to upgrade our customer's data files from one release to the next, maintaining the customers data in their tables?
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>>u can change the stucture of tables programatically
>>or send an empty copy of the new tabel and a program to copy the old data
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>Arnon
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>May not be a bad idea to also run 'Validate Database' when your done!
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>Tom

yeah , that too :)

Arnon