Yes, it's getting smarter each day, the question is why it wasn't smart to Tracy:)
Cetin

>hmmm....I agree, something is up. I even tried it with table2 having no records, using iif() instead of nvl():
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>select aid, aagcy, iif(isnull(bvalue),'a',bvalue) as bvalue ;
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>    left join table2 on (table2.bidv = table1.aid) into cursor tempo readwrite
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>bvalue was the right length in the resulting recordset. VFP's pretty smart I guess. :)
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>>Steve,
>>That is not true. First record being null or not doesn't affect the resulting size. It's known by VFP using the fieldsize of bvalue.
>>Cetin
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