I need distinct on Dodah.A, Dodah.B The other joins are simply ties to additional tables that I need to know records exists in - I need the data from them for display or counting purposes on reports.

I Have one table (Dodah) that is always unique on Dodah.A, Dodah.B - I wonder if I could somehow join this back to itself to get a unique recordset?

inner join dodah DDD ON DDD.A = Dodah.A ???

hmm - might work!
The frustrating thisg is this is so easy in Fox!!

>Because you have the 5 fields listed, there IS not distinct do to the "Blah" table columns that have different city/zip fields... (or at least thats what they appear to be).
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>In the sample data you showed, it appears to be a 1 to 1 ratio for Dodah and Big for each key "A" column.
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>However in table "Blah", you have 2 entries for each "A" key... one for Jackson and one for Vicksburg.
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>What Distinct records to you want... the Dodah/Big with the last entry in the "Blah" table for associate key or what...