>>Something possibly dreadfully dangerous to backward compatibility caught my eye. Deep into the SQL-Select write-up is a simple statement:
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>> " Note Be sure to include the space immediately preceding each semicolon. Otherwise, you'll receive an error. "
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>I have seen this warning in previous versions, but I never found any problem with not putting the extra space.
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>Hilmar.

That's interesting. Before writing here I checked the VFP 6. Help in SQL - Select and didn't find it there. Mind you I used a "Find" command and didn't actually eyeball it.

JimN