>>Right, but I want to have something which I can use without changes in both SQL and VFP. Also I just found I can not use INLIST, I have more than 24 codes.
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>I don't think you'll be able to write something that will work on both databases. At least not something reasonably simple and maintainable.

I can with the UNION, but I decided to go against this idea. I can use placeholder and do update on my cursor afterwords, or update the rest of the code to use the check directly against this string.