>>>>But if you already have a table open in workarea 1 (which is also workarea A), then there's confusion between that workarea and the one in the query.
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>>We're going in circles <s>. The A is only used during the creation of the final cursor. Regard what's happening during the creation as happening in a private datasession. Only the endresult is important to the rest of the code/environment.
>>Let me repeat that there's no confusion possible. There's almost always some table open in area 1/A. Every programmer knows (should know) that there's no relation whatsoever between the table in that area and the 'inner-alias' A as declared in the sql-select.
>>It must be a matter of mindset and selective perception here. Your thoughts when seeing an A-alias in a sql-select must be a matter of personal bias.
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>>It's not me who's wrong here! Not this time :).
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>But I'm not talking about the
reader having a problem. I'm talking about the
database engine having a problem. VFP can get confused in this situation--that's why it should be avoided.
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>Tamar
VFP will certainly not get confused!! I'm sure about that.
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