>>>Your order by here is strange. I would probably re-write the whole query as
>>>
>>>select * from (select T.Numero, T.Title, T.Url, T.AddDate, row_number()
>>>over (partition by R.NoThread order by R.NoThread) as Row from Thread T LEFT JOIN Reply R on T.NoThread = R.NoThread) X
>>>where Row <=10
>>
>>I do not understand why it would be strange. The 10 records I need to select from Reply are subject to a specific order. To me, this is the clean way to do it.
>
>What does ORDER BY 1 DESC mean?
VFP order by the first field in descending order. Even then that is not really used (or better not used I think). I see it sometimes though. Perhaps he had VFP on his mind??? :o)
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