Rich,

That would work, he would have to test it and see how much faster it is than ALTER TABLE.

>>Too many as in "impractical", or as in "too many for VFP to handle"?
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>>>Ya, I thought of that. There are too many fields to list
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>Would it be possible to first run the current query and then add
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>SELECT *,BoIdBase_A AS BoIdBase FROM result_cursor INTO CURSOR result_cursor
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