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>>It was consistent. I mean without changing anything in the SQL clause that sometimes it generates a SQL with the field name and sometimes with EXP_1.
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>OK, I just tried this:
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>"select mailingAddress AS mailingaddress from voucher"
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>VFP6 did not give an error, so you should be able to do "select desc from...as desc" and see if that forces the correct field-name. That might help.

Yes, the AS is what we used since the first day we encountered this.