Jason,

In VFP table numeric data internaly is stored as a character string. Because of that VFP adds one position for a sign and one for decimal separator.

>Hello all. I am using remote views to access an oracle database.
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>What I found was that when I am populating the view and then do a copy to filename type sdf and review the resulting file, all numeric fields are off by 2.
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>N2 in the file is N4, N5 is N7, N1 is N3, N7.2 is N8.2.
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>With foxpro tables and foxpro tables accessed through remote views there is no problem.
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>Does anyone have an idea of what is happening here?
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>I even went and using the command window:
>use database?
>(opened the remote database)
>use remote view
>copy stru to test1
>use test1
>modi stru
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>and this verified that the field sizes were incorrect.
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>Help
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