>Dudes and Dudettes,
>
>I'm having a bit of a problem translating a VFP SELECT statement to MySQL.
>The following is the code I have so far. The "//" lines are the original
>VFP code, and the lines right underneath the //'s are the MySQL translation.
>Here's what I have so far:
>
>

>//ALLTRIM(dst.ccity)+", "+ALLTRIM(dst.cstate) as dest_city, ;
>concat(TRIM(dst.ccity), ", ",TRIM(dst.cstate) as dest_city,  <-- missing parenthesis here

>//LEFT JOIN c_d!users ue ON ue.uid = x.eby ;
>LEFT JOIN users ue ON ue.uid = x.eby
>
>//WHERE cmp.cname like lcCname ;
>WHERE cmp.cname like lcCname   ***** NOTE: this is a local variable in VFP! *****
// so you'd need to insert a '<<lcCname>>' here in textmerge to get the right
// value in the command. Same goes for other VFP variables.
>
>//AND TTOD(rdt) >= ldDateLow ;
>
>//AND TTOD(rdt) <= ldDateHigh ;

// instead ot ttod you'd simply have to have '<<ldDateLow>>' compared with the 
// rdt field, probably with a ... and rdt between '...' and '...'

>//AND DELETED() = .F. ;

// there are no deleted records. this line goes away.

>//AND x.acc = lcAccID ;
>
>//INTO CURSOR curDnumList READWRITE
>
>[NOTE: Decided to stop here when I saw the "INTO CURSOR" code. Hold all horses! :^)]
>

The "into cursor" part is unnecessary, unless you want to use it for another select while you're connected. There should be something telling MySQL to direct the resultset into a temporary table. I know I saw it somewhere, but I probably have just two days more experience with MySql than you have, so... look it up.