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Visual FoxPro
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Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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Vista
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Windows 2003 Server
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Visual FoxPro
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01321710
Message ID:
01321716
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Name Expression cannot but macro substiotuion can be used
  ORDER BY &lcSQLSortCol
>Can a name expression (or Macro) be used in the ORDER BY clause of a SELECT statement? I have tried the following, but get an error.
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>m.lcSQLSortCol = "lastname"
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>SELECT PatientID, lastname, firstname FROM Patients INTO CURSOR csrResult ;
>  ORDER BY (m.lcSQLSortCol)
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>I get the error: SQL: Column 'LCSQLSORTCOL' is not found
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>Thanks for your help.
>
>Jim
--sb--
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