Thank you Kevin
Rafael

El jue., 6 sept. 2018 a las 12:03, Kevin J Cully (<kjcu...@cherokeega.com>)
escribió:

> Take a look in the Downloads area for the Stru2PostgreSQL and Stru2MySQL_2
> program.  It should be pretty easy to modify those to get the structures
> generated.
>
> http://leafe.com/download/stru2postgreSQL.PRG
> http://leafe.com/download/stru2mysql_2.prg
>
> -Kevin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2018 10:34 AM
> To: profox@leafe.com
> Subject: Re: alter column in sql server
>
> Why not write the script in VFP and then cut-and-paste it into the SQL
> Server? Use AFIELDS to get the fieldlist, TEXTMERGE to write the script.
> Easy, peasy.
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:28 AM Rafael Copquin <rafael.copq...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I need to import a DBF table into SQL Server However, all the fields
> > in the DBF table begin with the suffix ST (a previous programmer built
> > the table in 1992, with the notion that all fields should have a
> > specific suffix related to the table's purpose)
> >
> > But I just want the sql server table to have all its fields without
> > that suffix, ie: STACCT should become ACCT, STNAME should become NAME
> > and so on,
> >
> > The DBF table has 60 fields.
> >
> > I would like to issue an ALTER TABLE statement directly in the SQL
> > Server Management Studio to remove the ST suffix from all its fields.
> >
> > But I have no idea on how to build a stored procedure with something
> > similar to a DO WHILE loop in SQL Server, such that it would read a
> > field name, remove the ST suffix and alter the name as desired. And
> > then pass to the next field and do the same
> >
> > In fact, I must do the same with all the DBF tables from the old DOS
> > system, because I am converting it to a VFP9 app with a SQL Server
> > back end.
> >
> > Please show me a code snippet that would do that
> >
> > Thank you in advance
> >
> > Rafael Copquin
> >
> >
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