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I'm porting a VFP 9 application to SQL Server. The VFP app has some tables with "general" fields in them. I get a byte array when query the field, and when I save it to disk, I can look inside and see it's a word document, or a Paint BMP, etc. From reading around, I've found that the general field is a proprietary format and contains a thumbnail image of the preview of the document (amongst other things, I'm sure). Can somebody point me to some code that would extract firstly the type of file, and then the actual file data that I can save as the original file. (Getting the preview image out

Table one contains ID|Name 1 Mary 2 John Table two contains ID|Color 1 Red 2 Blue 2 Green 2 Black I want to end up with is ID|Name|Red|Blue|Green|Black 1 Mary Y Y 2 John Y Y Y Thanks for any help. Thanks for the responses. I'm going to re-post this with some additional info about exactly what I'm trying to do that may complicate this. Can someone close this? If you use T-SQL you can use PIVOT ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177410.aspx ) Here is query I used: declare @tbl_names table(id int, name varchar(100)) declare @tbl_colors table(id int, color varchar(100)) insert into @tbl

We are experiencing some huge issues with multi-user network file sharing on version 1803 of Windows and VFP9 SP2. Here are a few of the issues we see: Blank records written to the database. A system will write a complete record with values in all fields, but the record is blank in the table. Records that are written but don't appear for other users until the table is closed. If session A opens a table and adds 5 records, session B will see that the extra 5 records are there, but they will either be blank or will appear to have data from a previous record in them. Once session A closes the

I am trying to query a dbf table from my Java application. I put in reference this thread I created a system data source using the ODBC Data Source Administrator, I set the data source name to be VFPDS and set the database type to .DBC finaly i set the path to the .dbc file. the following is my java code: import javax.swing.* ; import java.awt.* ; import java.awt.event.* ; import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.sql.SQLWarning; import java.sql.Statement; // Import custom library containing myRadioListener import java.sql.DriverManager;