>>I think you'd have to do something like this:
>>
>>select customer, sum(invoices) from ;
>>(select Customer, count(InvNum) as Invoices;
>> from ActiveInvoices;
>> group by Customer;
>>union select Customer, count(InvNum) as Invoices;
>> from HistInvoices;
>> group by Customer;
>> order by Customer)
>>group by customer
>
>That type of query is not supported in VFP. It would be cool if it did, though.
>What would that work in? I tried it in SQL 7 and it didn't work either.
You're right, it doesn't appear to be supported in SQL 7. My apologies for the misinformation. Looks the best (or only) way to do this would be in two passes.
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