>Enviroment VFP 7, existing tables on a Novel server, new tables on a local PC running Win2k.
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>I have several tables which have an addition field. The new tables have test data in them. The new field is 1 character and has values A and B. I need to do the following:
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>1. remove existing test data
>2. copy existing data and set new field to A
>3. copy existing data and set new field to B and set 3 numeric fields to zero
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>What is the safest way to the do the above?

Select *, "A" as NewFieldName from RemoteTable into table LocalTable

...and variants thereof. In the next line you can also

select LocalTable
Blank All Fields num1, num2, num3

- which will set your three numeric fields to zero (insert your real table and field names here, of course).
After this, you may need to open the local table exclusively to index it.