THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! Your answers are extremely helpful and the links are perfect.

>David,
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>See answers inline.
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>>I'm using VFP9 to communicate with SQLServer database, using SQLEXEC(). I need to know the corresponding SQL commands for a few basic VFP commands:
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>>1) REPLACE table1.field1 WITH "HELLO" FOR "FRANCE" $ table1.field2
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>UPDATE Table1 set field1 = 'HELLO' where Field2 like '%FRANCE%'

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>>2) REPLACE table1.field3 WITH table2.field4 for table1.field5 = table2.field6
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>UPDATE T1 set field3 = T2.Field4 from Table1 T1 inner join Table2 T2 on T1.field5 = T2.field6
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>>3) COUNT TO x FOR table1.field7 = "JOE"
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>select count(*) from Table1 where Field7 = 'JOE'
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>See also
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>http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp
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>and
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>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPSQL-TSQL-Mapping