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>But what if the Cursor was created in another datasession?

You cannot open it into another datasession, then the issue is out of game.

>If the cursor is created in the current datasession, why not use the alias directly, >instead of using the DBF()? (See my first SELECT SQL)
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>Regards,

This and the previous are the reasons because this behavior ( bug ) is ignored by the VFPT,
and honestly I did not expect a VFPT fixing.

On last,I Agree with direct coding.

But if you write a program that using the metadata of another developer
generates a program that using the metadata of the customer
generates a code that executes one SELECT FROM ?

In this case, the only possibility is to reduce the possible cases lessened,
build a SELECT that uses a FROM DBF_file can to be the more simple way.
( another way is genetic programming or neural net programming, but this is another issue )

Fabio