Updating Fields In One Table From Another in FoxPro

With Microsoft products dropping support for DBF files, I’ve been using FoxPro 7 much more now.

One of the more annoying things in FoxPro (and maybe other systems) is when you update a DBF field from another, a simple UPDATE query does not work.  You need to use:

SET RELATION TO table.field INTO otherTable
REPLACE destField WITH otherTable.field FOR table.joinField = otherTable.joinField

This is a fairly annoying way to do it, but it works.  Both statements are required.

Cheers!

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