>I always use single letters to alias my SQL statements and I always start from "a". Not very descriptive, but with less characters to look at the SQL seems simpler to me. Personal preference I would think. I have never heard of a-j causing problems.

I haven't tested this recently, but I have heard of problems with single letter aliases. Of course, it's only an issue if there are tables open in the first 10 workareas before running the query.

Tamar