>I am a bit familar with SQL queries, but the Foxpro twist is causing me a few headaches.
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>I would expect the following query to give me a list of all fields in table a and 1 field in table b, but it renames any of the fields in table a with an _a that conflict with names in the joined table even though I am not questing them.
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>SELECT *,design.description FROM invitempost INNER JOIN design ON invitempost.descode = design.descode
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>I don't want to specifically list the fields from table a that I want because there are easily 100 fields in that table and I plan on using this sql statement in many areas and don't want to constantly have to update them. I am sure there is an easy answer.....
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>-Randy

No Randy,
That query will give you ALL fields from ALL tables involved in the query and the field "description" will be duplicated. And this is true not only for VFP but for SQL Server also (I suspect that for all other RDBMS this is true also, but not sure). If you want all fields from one of the table you must specify its alias:

That query:

SELECT invitempost.*,;
       design.description;
FROM invitempost;
INNER JOIN design ON invitempost.descode = design.descode

Will give you all fields from invitempost table and the Description field from design table.