>Does this mean that VFP8, without "SYS(3099, 70)", will forevermore cease and desist from using a filtered result set as the return for simple Select-SQL statements?

I've been working overnight to adjust about a dozen extremely long SQL lines that we have here. I have about 40 others that use GROUP BY that I have to adjust.

Of course, as John mentioned, I could initiate the SET command to make it backward compatible. But the goal here is not to be backward compatible but to follow up with Visual FoxPro as is. This will also make our SQL with GROUP BY to be fully compliant with ANSI SQL. So, this is good for expansion.