>I have a moment of brain shortage, right now I can't see the forest for all the trees. Is it possible from within an object to know what is the name it's instantiated as? Given this code
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>loCountries = NewObject('SqlTable','SQL.vcx')

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>In this case I want the class SqlTable to understand that it's instantiated as loCountries. I am building a rather complicated generic class to work with SQL tables. My idea is that if I call the object for instance loCountries, my class can be smart enough to know that I want it to connect to the SQL table called Countries.

You can use AINSTANCE, but not in Init, you should call dedicated method.
after the Init of the class.

CLEAR
test = CREATEOBJECT([TestMe])
test.CheckInstance()

DEFINE CLASS TestMe AS Custom



  PROCEDURE Init
****        this.CheckInstance()
  ENDPROC 
  
  PROCEDURE CheckInstance
      AINSTANCE(aVars,[TestMe])
      DISPLAY MEMORY  LIKE aVars
  ENDPROC 
  
  
ENDDEFINE