>Weird, an analogous query works for me in VFP 7 SP1. Maybe a setting difference?
>
>Here's my test query. With TasTrade open:
>
>SELECT last_name FROM employee ;
>UNION ;
>select SPACE(1) as last_name FROM customer

That works for me also. However if the second select is a character field [same data type] of different width, you get the error. My guess is VFP has no table field structure to compare to the first SELECT when you use SPACE(1)