Thanks Tore,

I would never have thought of using an aggregate function without a GROUP BY clause so I guess my code will be safe.

>>Hi Tore,
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>>I've never heard of this before and have been relying on this for many years now. I have just done some testing and _TALLY appears to always return 0 if no records were selected, even if selecting into a cursor.
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>>Can you give me a scenario where _tally will get set to 1 when no records are selected?
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>SELECT COUNT(1) FROM yourtable WHERE .f.

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>>>>I have noticed that when I run a SQL Select that is based on SUM() and COUNT() functions (to group certain records), the _TALLY returns a value greater than 0, even if no records match the WHERE clause. Is this by design? Or am I missing something?
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>>>If you Select into a cursor, VFP will create a cursor with one record to hold the result, and _tally reports 1 which is the same as the number of records in this cursor.