A question mark before a variable tell VFP that if the variable exist, take the value from it. It it does not exist, it will pop up a form asking the value of this variable. It's called a parametized view.

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>I have this SQL statement.I create it by the View Designer.Now the question is why the View Designer puts automatically quotation marks in the first AND statement ?. I need this field to campare range dates...
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>SELECT Mytable.date, Mytable.descrip, SUM(Mytable.amount), Mytable.quotas,;
>Mytable.amount;
>FROM Mydatabase!Mytable;
>WHERE Mytable.date BETWEEN ?dDateFrom AND ?dDateTo;
>OR (Mytable.plan = .T.;
>AND Mytable.date <= "dDateTo";
>AND ALLT(Mytable.quotas) = "0");
>GROUP BY Mytable.num_oper;
>ORDER BY Mytable.date
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