>>According to the VFP Help HAVING without group by has the same effect as WHERE. Therefore, for me the latter of your suggestions is better. Or dealing with the query cursor in VFP after it is selected in a separate SQL Select.
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>Yes it has the same effect but it executes later and can see field aliases.
You are correct. I knew there was no use reading VFP help <g>. Thank you.
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