Before posting that interrogation I'll try variations for it. If I can't fix this I'll get back to you.

Thx for the feedback

>>I tested with only "date" and VFP gets back at me saying that the field name is not precise enough. I looked at my interrogation and I didn't see another place where I select a "date" field. Unless VFP considers "date" to be a reserved word.
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>>At least I've got a fix to make my app work but still this one bugs me and I'd like to understand what's going on here.
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>>update : then again my order with MeaningfullNameForDate works in my short select but not in my big select.
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>>>Silly question: does it work if the name is shorter? Such as mydate instead of MeaningfullNameForDate? have you tested it?
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>Denis could you post repro code?
>Just becuase that work for me:
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>CREATE CURSOR crsTest (date D, Fld1 I)
>RAND(-1)
>FOR asd = 1 TO 200
>    INSERT INTO crsTest VALUES (DATE()-INT(RAND()*(asd*100000))%199,asd)
>NEXT
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>SELECT date As MyVeryLongDescriptionOfDate, Fld1  FROM CrsTest ORDER BY MyVeryLongDescriptionOfDate
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