The code that I have inherited is full of things like

USE myTable ALIAS myAlias

and then code such as

SELECT 'myAlias' ---- rather than SELECT myAlias
REPLACE myField WITH myValue IN 'myAlias'
etc.

This doesn't seem to cause any problems, but I did find a problem with a similar construct

SET PROCEDURE TO 'procdir\proc1','procdir\proc2'

When the project builder came across this line it only pulled proc1 into the project while

SET PROCEDURE TO 'procdir\proc1'
SET PROCEDURE TO 'procdir\proc2' ADDITIVE

and

SET PROCEDURE TO procdir\proc1,procdir\proc2

got both of them

Are there any reasons to use strings (maybe it made it more clear to him) and does anybody know of any other gotchas from using them?

Thanks......Rich