Check last part of my previous reply.
Cetin

>Well I solved this problem using Vladimir's suggestion. Thanks Vladimir.
>But now I have a bigger question.
>If the main table has fields containing pointers to data in other tables IE sites.er contains an er_id from table er, then
>
>

>lcSites = addbs(fileloc) + 'bluebook\sites'
>lcERs = addbs(fileloc) + 'bluebook\ers'
>
>select * , ers.name ;
>from (lcSites) ;
>left outer join ers on sites.er = ers.er_id ;
>into cursor crsTempBlueBook
>

>will produce a cursor containing the name of the er taken from the er lookup table. But how do you structure a situation where there are several of these lookups in the main table? As in:
>

>lcSites = addbs(fileloc) + 'bluebook\sites'
>lcERs = addbs(fileloc) + 'bluebook\ers'
>lcCEO1 = addbs(fileloc) + 'bluebook\people'
>lcTC1 = addbs(fileloc) + 'bluebook\people'
>lcTC2 = addbs(fileloc) + 'bluebook\people'
>
>** yielding something like
>select * , ers.name, tc1.name, tc2.name, ceo1.name ;
>   from (lcSites) ;
>   (lcERs) as ers ;
>   (lcCEO1) as ceo1 ;
>   left outer join (lcERs) on sites.er = ers.er_id ;
>   left outer join (lcCEO1) on sites.ceo1 = ceo1.person_id
>
>etc.
>

>
>Thanks to all for your thoughts
>**************************************************************************
>>Why not make it all simple and use local alias';
>>
>>

>>lcRawData = addbs(fileloc) + "surveys/RawData2005"
>>rawdata = 'RawData2005'
>>lcPermID = '20011'
>>lcJoincondition = 'Companyinfo.company = RawData2005.company'
>>
>>SELECT CI.*, RD.* ;
>> FROM ;
>>     COMPANYINFO CI ;
>>    INNER JOIN (lcRAWDATA) RD ;
>>   on CI.company = RD.company ;
>> WHERE  CI.permid = ( "20011" )
>>