>>>Why not to use:
>>>SELECT * FROM ALPHA_X WHERE stype!="WL " OR progtype!="NP" ;
>>> INTO CURSOR ALPHATMP
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>>I did do it that way just to get job out, but this week's learning curve was to conquer Subqueries... Was just trying to meet the daily workload AND learn something at the same time. :D)
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>I guess Foxpro doesn't like to have the same FROM table in both main query and subquery.

Thats what I was afraid of. Looking at the examples in documentation, that seems to be the only difference with my code. Thanks!