>I've possibly forgotten something trivial or learned something new today...
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>How, in an sql statement, do you get the min value of, say, 5 values?
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>I try something like SELECT MIN(field1,field2,field3,field4) FROM MYFILE
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>and VFP wants to assume MIN() is aggregation of several rows....

Why not

select min(field1) as min1, min(field2) as field2 ...

lnMin=min(min1, min1, ...)