>>I what to find all duplicates of lastname+firstname and then if any of these name don't have any data in the child table arcpinfo,
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>In VFP 9, you can find these records with a query like:
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>SELECT lastname, firstName, CNT(*) ;
> FROM ( ;
> SELECT * FROM ARCPerson ;
> WHERE ID NOT IN (SELECT ID FROM ARCPInfo)) NoInfo ;
> GROUP BY 1,2
>
>This assumes that you have a primary key field in ARCPerson called ID and that ARCPInfo has the same ID field to link the two tables.
>
>Tamar


thanks