Roxanne,

I always had best luck in subqueries when REPEATING a file already used by always giving the repeat instance of the file an alias and referring to all fields in the subquery using the alias. Less chance to confuse the ol SQL syntax checker.

Good luck,
Jim N

>>Why not to use:
>>SELECT * FROM ALPHA_X WHERE stype!="WL " OR progtype!="NP" ;
>> INTO CURSOR ALPHATMP
>
>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)