>>Sergey,
>>"A table field takes a precedence over field alias name." Who decides that? VFP9 created a rule specific to itself?
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>This is a rule for previous VFP versions as well.
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>Thanks,
>Aleksey.

OK w/o having installed VFP9 yet probably I can't see what you're talking about. In previous versions the only thng was with the ordering (no 'Order by clause invalid' error).
I can't keep thinking wasn't it a good time to remove such a tool specific rule when a new engine version is introduced < s >.
Cetin