>No, unfortunately it's no longer correct way (or never was correct way). It >works in VFP7 and bellow, but would not work in VFP8. It also would not >work in SQL Server or Access.

Thanks for the heads up on this - as I don't want to revisit this code when I move to VF8 in a couple months. In the past I would build a temp unique index to handle this type of situation, and perhaps that is still my best solution.

Mel Cummings