>>Is that correct? I thought that SQL aliases have nothing to do with A-J aliases for work areas.
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>>>It's a bad idea to use one leter meaningless table aliases in a query. It makes the query totally unreadable. It also could be dangerous because letters A-J are reserved for workareas 1-10.
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>From my testing, you are correct: Message#1154483

It's no longer a problem, but at one time, you could get unexpected results with something along these lines:

SELECT 1
USE MyTable && now in workarea A

SELECT ... ;
  FROM AnotherTable A ;
  ...

VFP would get confused over what A meant.

Tamar