Dorris,

You've to include all fields that are not aggregate functions into group by. It's documented in VFP8 help under Behavior Changes Since Visual FoxPro 7.0 and in INFO: SQL SELECT Behavior Changes in Visual FoxPro 8.0 mskb #813361.

>ok...can someone tell me WHY this gives me "SQL: Group by clause missing or invalid" in VFP8
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>Sele inv_no, inv_locat, serial_no, sum(cost) as totcost,;
> Descrip, budget, user_code, phys_loc, Source, ;
> duplicate, loc_name, loc_code;
> From shrt1 group by 1 into cursor short2
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>yet this one doesn't?
>SELECT inv_no, sum(cost) as totcost FROM shrt1 GROUP BY 1 INTO CURSOR chkcst
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>The only difference between the two statements (that I can see) is the field list....