SELECT A.REFNO, A.DATE, A.SUPPLIERID, A.TERMS, A.TOTQTY, A.AMOUNT, A.REMARKS, A.PREPAREDBY, A.CHECKEDBY, A.PRINTDATE, A.POSTDATE, A.CLOSED, A.CANCELLED, A.ID, B.CODE AS SUPPCODE, B.DESCRIPTOR AS SUPPNAME, B.ADDRESS AS SUPPADDR FROM pohdr A JOIN SUPPLIER B ON A.SUPPLIERID=B.ID WHERE B.`DESCRIPTOR` LIKE 'ABC%' ORDER BY REFNOStill no luck! What I do not get is it will show an ODBC error message (Unknown Column ... in 'where clause' ), but show the correct results~!