Steven,
You must include all non-aggregate columns in the GROUP BY clause. You have no aggregate columns so why are using the GROUP BY clause at all?

Regards.

>Hi anyone,
> I realize that VFP8 is now more 'purest' with SQL expressions. But what would be wrong with the following that would render error "SQL: GROUP BY clause is missing or invalid." (FWIW, this code sample was created by Query Designer.)
>
>Thanks for any ideas,
>Steven-
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>

>SELECT Detail.*, Codes.desc;
> FROM ;
>     detail ;
>    LEFT OUTER JOIN codes ;
>   ON  Detail.bccode = Codes.code;
> GROUP BY Detail.bccode;
> ORDER BY Detail.bccode
>