Thanks for the code snippet Cetin. I decided to take Gregory's idea since I can't be certain that the table could be used exclusively.

Mike


>I was in a hurry when I replied, sorry. As Larry said alter table works but needs exclusive access. Greg's suggestion of modifying the stored proc itself sounds to be a better approach.
>
>Alter sample :
>

>lcTable = 'myTable'
>USE (lcTable) exclusive
>Open Database (CursorGetProp("Database",lcTable))
>lnFields = AFields(arrFlds)
>For ix=1 to lnFields
> If !Empty(arrFlds[ix,7])
>    lcColumn = arrFlds[ix,1]
>    Alter Table (lcTable) alter column &lcColumn drop check
> endif
>endfor
>*replacements
>For ix=1 to lnFields
>  If !Empty(arrFlds[ix,7])
>    lcColumn = arrFlds[ix,1]
>    lcCheck = arrFlds[ix,7]
>    Alter Table (lcTable) alter column &lcColumn set check &lcCheck
>  endif
>endfor
>

Cetin
>
>>Hi Cetin,
>>
>>Thanks for your input. I did a bit of searching in the VFP help file for DBSETPROP and field rules for tables are read-only so it appears that I can't "set validations off" :(
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>
>>>Off the top of my head :
>>>-You could set validations off (dbsetprop)
>>>Do your work
>>>-Restore validations
>>>Cetin