>>>FYI -
>>>SET DELETED ON was my problem...arrrggh!
>>>
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>>Did you try my SQL and Sergey's? Do they return the same result? I think mine is essentially the same as Rich's.
>
>Yes, I tried both.
>Sergey's worked, but it returned all the item_state ones, not just the two that I was looking for.
>Your's had some strange syntax error I couldn't get passed, and I didn't really understand the part of the statement where the 'step1' was. However you DID point out the >=2 intead of = 2 in Rich's - so hey - everyone helped..haha... gotta love the VFP community!

What did

select Items.Order_No, ;
Items.Item_State, ;
count(*) as cntStates from items ;
where items.item_state in ('PI', 'CM') ;
group by 1,2 ;
having cntStates >1

return?

The idea is to get orders with Items A & B. So, I used it as first step, then join with the orders. It would be easier to divide into two separate SQL.

If you look at Rich select and mine you'll see we used the same idea.