Hi John,

yep - inner, outer in various combinations and up to 7 tables or so in a single view. My current app (commercial V-market product) relies exclusively on views (with rarely less than 3 joins per view) and again, all fields are named xx_name. I haven't had any problems ... that I know of ;-) ... Did you fix your problem with just an "As" clause in the View SQL or did you have to rename the back-end field?

>Hi Ken ----
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>Hmmm...and you use INNER/OUTER JOINs? On remote and local data? BTW, your naming convention was really common in the old days of ISAM tables and still is useful.
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>>FYI - ALL my fields are named with underscores because I use the naming convention of xx_name where xx is a table designator ie. cs_phone would be my customer phone number field. I am completely sold on this convention as it has many advantages including not having to specify table/alias in SQL statements and always knowing at a glance which "phone number" or whatever you're dealing with. I Know many will disagree with this and most ER tools seem to not like it - but hey, I view that as THEIR problem, not mine.
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>>Anyway - my real point is, in answer to your question, that I've been doing this in all my apps in all versions of Fox/VFP for years - including lots of views - and never had a problem with SQL and the underscores.
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>>Good Luck ...
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>>>Hi All ---
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>>>Was running a simple outer join against two remote views (SQL Server) in VFP6. Kept getting "Column action_ID" not found for one of the tables (which is bogus). Changed the view definition so that the field name is "actionid" in the remote view, everything works.
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>>>Went back to some old VFP3 notes and found that I had the same problem way back when with SELECT statements using the JOIN keyword and fields with underlines in them whether or not local or remote views.
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>>>Anyone else ever run into this or could shed some light on this?