>VFP won't let you do this
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>
>SELECT table1.pk1,
> (select top 1 somecharfield from table2 where pk1=table1.pk1 order by pk2) as somecharfield
> from table1
>
>
>You get error message: Queries of this type are not supported
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>
>Of course I can cheat with a prequery, but what's your best work around for this VFP limitation?
It works fine for me, I tried with this non-sensical (as those tables I used I had them open but are not related at all) query and it worked just fine
select delegateid, (select top 1 applicn from x:\fox\sky order by win_title) as Application from delegate
[Update]Arghh, forgot the where.... let me see...
[Update 2]Sorry Brandon, nothing to see here, I was wrong, as always....
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