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Use of a field name DESC in SQL
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30/09/2001 12:45:17
 
 
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30/09/2001 12:13:56
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00562338
Message ID:
00562341
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>>As someone found the logic of VFP when using a field name DESC in a SQL? Sometimes, the same SQL will generate an error if a field name is Desc. Most of the times it'll work.
>
>DESC is a keyword in both VFP-SQL and T-SQL, as in:
>
>SELECT Name, City ;
>FROM Customers
>ORDER BY Name DESC
>
>
>so I would avoid it as a field name.

Yes, I know. My point was mostly to know why VFP sometimes accept it and sometimes it don't.
Michel Fournier
Level Extreme Inc.
Designer, architect, owner of the Level Extreme Platform
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