>>>
>>>I stand by my statement. The following works for me
>>>
>>>SELECT * FROM (ALIAS()) ;
>>> INTO CURSOR (ALIAS()) ;
>>> ORDER BY ...
>>>
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>>I get error Alias name already in use on the above command. What do you think I am doing wrong?
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>I get the same error when trying this with a Table rather than Cursor open in the current work area. Any chance that you changed work areas and are now in one which has a Table rather than a Cursor in use?
No. The problem I had was that I was adding columns to the cursor using ALTER TABLE command. I guess it changes the cursor into a table or something like this. Once I changed the ALTER TABLE to using CAST() (as suggested by Sergey), all works well.
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