>>Hmmm... Now that's interesting. I didn't know you could do that. I'm wondering if this would work when using SQL in combo boxes. I always hated having to send it to a temp cursor that I had to worry about cleaning up. I'll try that sometime. Good trick, if it works. :)
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BTW, why do you have to worry about cursors? They would be closed automatically, if form uses private DS.


>It works, since it was taken from one of our classes :)
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>But I would not use it in comboboxes. This was used to check field for uniqueness, so we only want to check, if this SQL produces records (_Tally) and result is not needed.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Michelle
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select * from (lcAlias) ;
>>>			where &lcfield == lcvalue to screen noconsole