I think it would be very usufull to be able to store in the dbf fields bigger than the current limit (254 or 255 char?). This to bring vfp in par with the other dbmses and to be able to store, browse and import from files bigger char fields with out having to store them in the memo which is somehow limited from the data presentation and processing point of view.
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VFP9 does, of course, have varchar available, consistent with SQL Server limits. --HankFay
It has varchar but you cannot store more than 254 characters.
We are going to enable UNICODE in Tables Fields so the limit of 254 chars will be too small (UNICODE uses 2 bytes by character). What would be a reasonable limit for Char Fields and UNICODE fields?. Samuel David