>I pasted a working query from sql server into vfp of the form:
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>select substring(myfield,1,2) as myfield_ from mytable group by substring(myfield,1,2)
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>and changed it to:
>select substr(myfield,1,2) as myfield_ from mytable group by substr(myfield,1,2) in vfp
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>This results in in either 'sql colum "" is not found, or "group by clause is missing or invalid",
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>But in vfp:
>select substr(myfield,1,2) as myfield_ from mytable group by myfield_
>works, but doesn't work in sql server (column not found error)
>
>I assume the SQL Server is 'ansi standard'? Is there a way to get VFP to behave like sql server? I tried all settings of set enginebehavior, but this didn't help.

In VFP use GROUP BY 1

SQL Server is ANSI standard.