>Thanks to you and all who have replied. What I see I need now is a suggestion for the best text on learning the launguage. My backgound is some VB, but otherwise I work in Perl/MySQL on *nix platforms.
Without incurring into additional costs, you can start with the on-line help, especially the user's guide and the programmer's guide.
Then, place some questions here at UT, about details you don't understand, suggestions for best techniques, and solutions to specific problems.
Specifically for preparing data for reports, see the help topic SELECT - SQL.
Hilmar.
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