I don't see ORDER BY in your statement.

Also, I suggest to add aliases to all columns - it is a good practice to use aliases when you use more than 1 table in your select statement.

>>>Hi all,
>>>the code below works but I need to add in an order by field1, field2 but I can't get it to work, I get an order by error. I've tried a simple order by command but no joy, also tried moving between engine behaviour 70/80/90 with no luck. Any help appreciated.
>>>~M
>>>
>>>

>>>sele FIELD_LIST ;
>>>	from TBALE1 ;
>>>		join TABLE2 ;
>>>		join TABLE3 ;
>>>	where something ;
>>>		AND something else ;
>>>	UNION ;
>>>sele FIELD_LIST
>>>	from TBALE1 ;
>>>		join TABLE2 ;
>>>		join TABLE3 ;
>>>	where something ;
>>>		AND something else ;
>>>	into cursor temp2 nofilter
>>>

>>
>>Adding ORDER BY before into cursor should work. What is the exact error you're getting?
>>
>>In the worse case scenario you can
>>
>>select * from (...
>>UNION
>>...) X
>>ORDER BY ...
>I am toying with the idea of a secondary select on the result, but I'd rather do the job in 1 query as I have 5 such queries to do and they are looking at reasonably large data sets, so better off not running commands that I don't have to.
>The error I get back is "SQL: Order by clasue is invalid", this is for engine behaviour set to 70 or 80. If I set it to 90 I get a syntax error and then this error, however I think that the engine behaviour 90 syntax error is not related to the order by.
>I've included one of the selects in full below.
>~M
>
>

>set engine 80
>
>* Get the cash lines
>sele BTR_link ;
>			, BTR_per ;
>			, BTR_supref ;
>			, BMA_name ;
>			, BTR_short ;
>			, BTR_netval as xNet ;
>			, BTR_vatval as xVat ;
>			, BTR_exchg ;
>			, BTR_curr ;
>			, round(BTR_netval/BTR_exchg,2) as xValue ;
>			, BTR_ordref ;
>			, BTR_ourref ;
>			, BTR_invref ;
>			, BTR_invdat ;
>			, BTR_bnkref ;
>			, BTR_bnkval ;
>			, space(25) as BDE_stkref ;
>			, space(10) as BDE_nom ;
>			, space(10) as BDE_cc ;
>			, A_rectyp ;
>			, A_tratyp ;
>			, A_nomctrl ;
>			, A_nccreve ;
>			, A_nomreve ;
>		from kfbtr ;
>			join kflli on BTR_short = a_short and a_rectyp = "10" ;
>			join kfbma on BTR_supref = BMA_ref ;
>		where BTR_per >= 201601 AND BTR_per <= 201612 ;
>			AND BTR_stage = "70" ;
>			AND (a_tratyp = "C" OR a_tratyp = "J") ;
>	UNION ;
>sele BTR_link ;
>			, BTR_per ;
>			, BTR_supref ;
>			, BMA_name ;
>			, BTR_short ;
>			, BDE_linval as xNet ;
>			, BDE_linvat as xVat ;
>			, BTR_exchg ;
>			, BTR_curr ;
>			, round(BDE_linval/BTR_exchg,2) as xValue ;
>			, BTR_ordref ;
>			, BTR_ourref ;
>			, BTR_invref ;
>			, BTR_invdat ;
>			, BTR_bnkref ;
>			, BTR_bnkval ;
>			, BDE_stkref ;
>			, BDE_nom ;
>			, BDE_cc ;
>			, A_rectyp ;
>			, A_tratyp ;
>			, A_nomctrl ;
>			, A_nccreve ;
>			, A_nomreve ;
>		from kfbtr ;
>			outer join kfbde on btr_link = bde_link ;
>			join kflli on BTR_short = a_short and a_rectyp = "10" ;
>			join kfbma on BTR_supref = BMA_ref ;
>		where BTR_per >= 201601 AND BTR_per <= 201612 ;
>			AND BTR_stage = "70" ;
>			AND a_tratyp = "I" ;
>		into cursor temp2
>