How can i change the size of a string field in a DBF file ???

[Joe]

Hi,

How can i change the size of a string field in a DBF

file (Table) from my Delphi 5 program ?????

Any help is a big help

Thanks

[manny2463]

Since you cannot restructure your table, you have to do the following:
Note: Asumming you have a table named "Employees"
and a field named "LastName" and it's size is 20
and you want to change it to 30

1 - Place a tquery component on a form
2 - Write this code where you want to change the field's size

With Query1 do
begin
sql.clear; // create a temporary field
sql.add('alter table Employees add temp char(30)');
execsql;

sql.clear; // copy contents of lastname to temporary field
sql.add('update Employees set temp = LastName');
execsql;

sql.clear; // delete field lastname
sql.add('alter table Employees drop LastName');
execsql;

sql.clear; // create field lastname with new size
sql.add('alter table Employees add LastName char(30)');
execsql;

sql.clear; // copy contents temporary field to lastname
sql.add('update Employees set LastName = temp');
execsql;

sql.clear; // delete temporary field
sql.add('alter table Employees drop temp');
execsql;
end;

That's all