Mimic your N(x,y) with a constant value. ie: for N(6,3) 00.000

select *, ;
  space(10) as myAddedStringColumn, ;
  {/:} as myAddedDatetimeColumn, ;
  0000.0000 as myNumeric ;
  from myTable ;
  where .f. ;
 into cursor crsMyCursor readwrite

Cetin



>Uhm, I was thinking about something that sometimes gives me problems,
>If I want to add a numeric field with a select command, it creates a field
>of Type N(x) where x is the lenght of the field, how can I manage the x value ?
>Sometimes i need a larger field than the one created by the sql command.
>..................
>
>-Thank You Cetin, I'll try to follow your indication, after all it's what i
>-usually do when I use the selct command, I was thinking about the reason
>-why I did not use that command in my CreateCursor Procedure... maybe the
>-previous version of VFP didn'tcreate empty cursor using the select command ?
>-Thank you again
>-Alessio
>
>>Alessio,
>>I see. You might add columns on the fly though. ie:
>>

>>select *, ;
>>  space(10) as myAddedStringColumn, ;
>>  {/:} as myAddedDatetimeColumn ;
>>  from myTable ;
>>  where .f. ;
>> into cursor crsMyCursor readwrite
>>

>>Array processing is generally faster but with these types of things it might not worth to test which one is really faster. However ALTER TABLE would have a problem. If you have longname field or add one with longname than next ... ADD COLUMN ... would error.
>>I suggest 'Select ... where .F. ...'.
>>Cetin
>>
>>
>>>I've chosen (I hope it's the right english verb) the afield function because
>>>I pass some parameters to my routine to add some columns to the cursor.
>>>Do you think is faster to exwcute an alter table after the select command or to add row to the afield Array ?
>>>
>>>
>>>>>I'm trying to work with triggers, I call a procedure when insert, update or delete records. It seems to work fine but.... if I create a cursor as an image of a triggered table the trigger starts working even on this cursor and that is not what i want to :-).
>>>>>I create the trigger with create cursor "cursorname" from array "arrayname" where the array is generated by the Afield fuction.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thank you
>>>>>Alessio
>>>>
>>>>Alessio,
>>>>1) You might set cols 13..15 to '' to avoid triggers.
>>>>2) Instead of afields() and create ... from array you might select into cursor. ie:
>>>>select * from myTable where .F. into cursor crsMyCursor readwrite
>>>>Cetin