>>>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
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>It's no longer a problem, but at one time, you could get unexpected results with something along these lines:
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>SELECT 1
>USE MyTable && now in workarea A
>
>SELECT ... ;
>  FROM AnotherTable A ;
>  ...
>

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>VFP would get confused over what A meant.
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>Tamar

What was that time?
In my experience, (V)FP was NEVER confused in the scenario above. Maybe the programmer, but that's always a possibility.