>>Yeah thanks for all the help on this one. I've not really used alias's per
>>se but rather kept track of workareas rather. But I will now.
>
>I've always envied programmers who tracked workareas for their work
>force or whatever was the proper expression. With SQL inventing and
>forgetting its temporary workareas, and Create Cursor and other stuff,
>tracking them by alias name was tricky enough. Keeping track of "what
>was open in what workarea" seems quite unfeasible to me.
>
>Besides, having seven tables open, and finding "Select 5" several dozen
>lines away from "Select 5 --- Use ThisDbf" was always a nightmare for
>me. Not in my routines (I've always used aliases), though, but had to
>maintain some others at times.

Yeah, but in the old days, 'Select A', 'Select B' was about all we had.