I think it is scoped to a datasession. I had to put it in the load of my base form to work correctly.

-John

>>I tried to run a vfp7 application from vfp8. I got problems with most of my forms since I use intensively sql to get data. SO I put the SET ENGINEBEHAVIOR 70 command in my startup prg. It says in the documentation that it is a global setup. Is it really ? because I still have the problems...
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>>thks
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>Yes, the setting is global.
>It fixes the same sort of problems in our code.
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>Can you show an example of a select statement that fails?
>Copy and paste the exact code please, not just something like it.
>Then we can look at it and test it.