>yes I am sure that this is valid Oracle syntax. I have used OpenQuery like this many times before. The problem was that I was missing a beginning quote in this string:
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>HCT.SAMPLE_LOCATION IN ("SR", LF","LR")

I find it extremely helpful, at least in fox code, to have my string literals highlighted - i.e. yellow background. So whenever I can't see the yellow start or stop at where I want it, it's easy to spot the odd mark.

Now I wish something of the kind was possible for nested marks in a SQL editor, or in Fox itself when editing all those places where we textmerge to generate code.