>>>>Thank you in advance.
>>>
>>>No way:( You can't create SQL that would work unchanged for VFP and SQL all the time. You are wasting your time trying to make it compatible IMHO. Write them depending on backend.
>>>Cetin
>>
>>If both fields are of character type, you can just group by each field individually. Otherwise I agree, we need back-end specific query.
>
>Why?
>Your first suggestion should works with both (or at least for VFP9):
>

>SELECT MyGrp
>FROM (SELECT Field1+Field2 AS MyGrp
>             FROM MyTable) Tbl1
>GROUP BY MyGrp
>

>
>:-)

I know, but I don't know if this is much of overhead in VFP.