Hi Gavin,

No firm ideas, but a WAG is that mixing the two DBF types is giving VFP a headache. Why not create a preprocess table with "client" with SELECT * FROM client INTO cursor VFPclient and then use VFPclient in your query? Who knows, might actually work :-)

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>I'm getting an error 'SQL: Internal error.' when issuing the following SQL Statement:
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>SELECT * ;
>    FROM loadfile, client ;
>    WHERE NOT EMPTY(loadfile.searchstr1) ;
>    AND UPPER(ALLTRIM(loadfile.searchstr1)) $ ALLTRIM(UPPER(client.company))
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>Loadfile is a VFP6.0 table and client is a FPW2.6 Table. Searchstr1 and Company Fields are both defined as C(55).
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>The online help states the following:
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>SQL: Internal error (Error 1800)
>An internal error has occurred.
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>Record your recent actions while using Visual FoxPro and then call Microsoft
>Support.
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>The Technical Writers must have been up all night thinking about this one !!!
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>What I'm trying to achieve is to find a group of clients using a partial match on Company Name, E.g. if Searchstr1 contained 'Bunbury' then I want to find all occurences in the Client table that contain 'Bunbury' somewhere in the Company Name Field.
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>Any Ideas as to what the problem might be?
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>Thanks,
>Gavin...