>>And it will come as no surprise that VB calls it that, too, I just checked :)
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>>So, we can't lay the blame on the vfp team for the funny name. It probably had some completely different origin many years ago...
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>I wonder if it's that Query has a different meaning to database people. Not having a database background Query just meant question/ask to me and the name didn't seem odd.

Well, sure, Query infers SQL to most of us. Maybe in ancient times, it had something to do with closing up DBs/tables, something like that...more like the Unload now that forms also have...things seem to have become confused somewhere along the technological way, though...