As far as I know, VFP does support that kind of query.

The actual code I'm working with is a little more complex than the example I provided. I just stripped down the example code to get the point across with as simple an example as I could think of.

Aloha,

James

>I've got little to add about multiple queries being faster. I'm just curious about the particular example you posted. In the older dialects of VPF in which I work, the query
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SELECT CNT(*) as nTotal FROM ATable INTO CURSOR crsCursor2 GROUP BY Field1

gives the same result as your 2nd example (unless I've missed even more than I usually do).
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>Do later versions of VFP not support GROUP BY queries that don't include the aggregating fields in the query itself?
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>>Hi,
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>>Is there a speed advantage to using separate SELECT commands as opposed to humping them up into a single command using sub queries?
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>>Here's an example of what I'm refering to:
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>>SELECT Field1,CNT(*) as nTotal FROM ATable INTO CURSOR crsCursor1 GROUP BY Field1
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>>SELECT nTotal FROM crsCursor1 INTO CURSOR crsCursor2
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>>as opposed to
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>>SELECT nTotal FROM (SELECT Field1,CNT(*) as nTotal FROM ATable GROUP BY Field1) INTO CURSOR crsCursor2
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>>The first example is more of a pain to clean up after but is easier to debug. I'm just wondering if there is a runtime speed advantage to any of them.
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>>Aloha,
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>>James