Since I never use long field names, and never have had the need for it the last 15 years, that is not any problem in my programs. I strongly recommend NOT to use long field names, I don't see any benefit at all. But needs may vary, of course.

>As Sergey explained to me, it only works if none of the fields have long names...IOW, it meets the criteria of a free table.
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>>Yes!
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>>>Tore,
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>>>Are you able to successfully perform an "ALTER TABLE ADD field" command to a cursor created with the READWRITE clause?
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