On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Rafael Copquin

<rcopquin@fibertel.com.ar> wrote:

> I have a legacy vfp 6 database that I am migrating to SQL Server 2008.

>

> The items table has a field named "itemcode" with a character field type

> of width 6

>

> This field would suposedly contain alphanumeric codes, but the client

> always used numeric codes, starting in '1' and ending in '999999'

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You could add computed column to the table that is not a real column

and use that as well.

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