>>ORDER BY must be the last clause
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>That gives me the following:
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>Result: Not a group by expression
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>Query: Select course,subject,held,course_date,idtraining,count(training.course) from training group by training.course order by training.course
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>This is the same situation I was in previously. ;-(

In Oracle, you have to GROUP BY every column that is not selected as an aggregate. In your example above you have to GROUP BY all 5 of the first columns.

Did you see my reply to this in the VFP forum?