It's all in the mindset. I just spent about 20 minutes trying to figure out how I could structure a query, or set of queries to get information out of a table that wouldn't choke on version 8 syntax later. The problem was that I couldn't include a memo field in a group by clause, nor could I aggragate a memo field. The field I needed for a key into another table wasn't unique in this one. My mindset was on the new group by changes and I couldn't get away from it.

It was driving me nuts, so I got up and walked away from my desk to get a drink of water, and when I came back, I slapped myself upside the head, and used a Select distinct clause that works just fine.

Mindset. It's all in the mindset.

Alan

>>>>One other thing he's complaining about is VFP's supposed limitation on nested queries -- I guess levels past 2 aren't permitted?
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>>>>Do you know anything about this? For my part at least, I've never had to go past one level, and frankly have very seldom even had to do that.
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>>>Jeff:
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>>>Can you define "nested queries"?
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>>>Tom
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>>Tom, my guess is something like:
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>>Select x from table1 where x in (select y from table2 where y in (select z from table3)))
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>>Alan
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>Alan;
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>That could well be the case. So you just use cascading select statements and build what you require. I have one that works on ten select statements with over 20 tables, until you get the data set desired. It is fast and does its job.
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>Tom