>Nadya,
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>>Yep, that's why you're getting this error and Cindy is not. Anyway, in your case you better not set it off :)
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>I can change SET SAFETY back and forth from ON to OFF and back again and run the following SQL multiple times without error:
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>SELECT * from tablename INTO CURSOR cJoe
>SELECT * from tablename INTO CURSOR cJoe
>SELECT * from tablename INTO CURSOR cJoe
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>SET SAFETY doesn't seem to really affect it, and I don't get any errors.
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>I am not sure what causes Fox to consider an alias sacred (i.e. unable to be overwritten by subsequent queries)...
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>JoeK

Yep, strange. It works fine here also. SET SAFETY is ON. It produces warning message, if I try to select into table, though.