Hi, Jeff
Because you are not spectifying a field to link the two tables on, the resulting table is joining all records in one table to one record in second table, then doing the same thing to the next record in the second table until all the records in the second table are joined to all the records in the first table. (Hopefully I explained this well enough.)

>I have the need to create a SQL statement that pulls data from payroll check current and history files. These files a VFP 6.0 free tables with exactly the same structure. These tables also do not include a unique key. The problem is if I issue a statement such as "select * from G:\Sbtpr\PRAXIS\prchck01,G:\Sbtpr\PRAXIS\prhchk01 into cursor tccursor" the computer slows to a crawl and eventually I get an error message stating the bla bla bla temp file is too large. If I change the SQL statement to only pull from on file at a time there are now issues at all. Separately it is actually quite fast. If I specify specific fields in the combined statement I get an error stating that the first field requested in not unique. I am sure this is because the same field name exists in both tables. Can I have one SQL Statement to pull data from both files?