>>I had never noticed this, but after a question in the dfpug forums, I checked the help for ALTER TABLE, and found the following defficiency:
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>>There seems to be no indication whatsoever that the clauses ADD COLUMN, ALTER COLUMN or DROP COLUMN may be repeated more than once.
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>Unfortunatelly, it still the case in VFP9 help. Neither sytax definition, nor following description mention that. However all the way down Example 7 shows how to alter 2 columns in one command.
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* Example 7
>CLEAR
>ALTER TABLE Customer ADD COLUMN Fax2 c(20) NOT NULL
>DISPLAY STRUCTURE
>ALTER TABLE Customer;
>   ALTER COLUMN Fax2 NULL;
>   ALTER COLUMN Fax2 SET DEFAULT .NULL.
>ALTER TABLE Customer DROP COLUMN Fax2
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I think you should forward your comments to MS.

OK. What is the usual procedure to do that (inform MS)? Sorry to ask, but I hadn't paid much attention to this before.