What is "Downall View Typecasting?" Dennis McGrath
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:44 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Unload / Export VARCHAR columns << 01. Define a temporary table on the fly with one exception to use a different column name to hold NOTE data type. >> I did do something similar to this, but since the user who needed to do this works from the R> prompt I needed a technique that didn't require any code. My solution was to create a view against the table UNIONed to a dummy view using the Downall View Typecasting technique. That way, I simply told the user to BROWSE against the view (AlertsInfo) instead of the table (Alerts) and that everything would be exactly the same as before. -- Larry
