Can you do select in VFP into a temp table and than feed it to MapInfo?
>I'd thought of something like that.
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>As I later explained to Cetin:
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>This query is to be achieved not with all-singing-and-dancing Visual FoxPro SQL, but with a very primitive version, from MapBasic (MapInfo's own poor version), so it hasn't got the same syntactic ability to alias the selects as you have.
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>Perhaps I have a cheek to post the question here :-)
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>SO I was hoping this could be done generically with very basic, cut-down SQL
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>The MapBasic syntax is simply:
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>Select expression_list
> From table_name [ , ... ] [ Where expression_group ]
> [ Into results_table ]
> [ Group By column_list ]
> [ Order By column_list ]
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><b>and to make matters worse, the table_name can't be an intermediate select cursor from a previous SQL.
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>It doesn't even feature "DISTINCT", and one can't have aliases to the subject tables. Why, I even have to convert the ASCII value of the gen letter, as MB's version of MAX() only works on numeric fields!!!
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>>The following select should give you a list of latest generation for each route. After that you can join it with the stops table.
SELECT * FROM RZStop r1 ;
>> WHERE r1.Gen = (SELECT MAX(Gen) FROM RZStop r2 WHERE r1.Rte_No = r2.Rte_No) ;
>> INTO CURSOR crsLastRtGen
--sb--