>>>At the command window, load your view SQL into a variable prefaced with "CREATE SQL VIEW MyView AS " + lcSQL, and macro execute it using &lcViewCode. Do you get an error?
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>>Well shoot Erik, reboot did no good & now this is beginning to bug me. When trying lcSQL="SELECT...." from the command window, I get that "Command contains unrecognizable phrase/keyword" error if the string I'm trying to store to the variable is greater than 255 characters.
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>>Now granted the entire SELECT statement is longer than max # of characters per command line. But Dagnabbit! System Capacities in Help Info say max number of characters per string or memory variable is 16,777,184. VFP6 SP3.... I dont get it.
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>Have you tried building it a chuck at a time?

Yep... works fine if I concatenate it together with + signs, just so long as the strings between each + sign are 255 chars or less. And if I build the whole query string that way to try your test it works... it actually creates the view. I dont get it, I'm still scouring the hacker's quide...