>>"very likely to be unique" always worries me. My experience is you eventually get in trouble.
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>True. And on an afterthought - I don't see why we cannot use a pk - valid for the lifetime of the query - using a derived table
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>	select * ;
>		from ( select recno() as pk, ;
>				Test.* ;
>				from Test ;
>			) X
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I know we can not use RECNO() when select uses more than 1 table. I haven't tested it with the derived table, but I think we need to have a real PK, each table should have a PK anyway.