Unfortunately, as I had tried that before, which is why I limited the fields for the group by statement. It was not combining the information together. The code presented from you (and I have used it) created this information:

AP-MISC                        500.00
AP-OFFICESUPPLIES              500.00
AP-OFFICESUPPLIES              500.00
AP-OFFICESUPPLIES             2000.00
AP-COMPUTERS                  5000.00
AP-COMPUTERS                  3000.00
AP-COMPUTERS                  7000.00
AP-COMPUTERS                  1500.00
AP-OFFICESUPPLIES               50.00
AP-MISC                       1000.00

where as I am trying to accomplish:

AP-COMPUTERS                  11500.00
AP-OFFICESUPPLIES              3050.00
AP-MISC                        1500.00

for some reason it does not want to group the codes together, it just wanted to keep them seperated.



>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>I have tried every suggestion that has been given to me regarding the whole "Group By" subject. However, I still do not seem to be accomplishing what VFP 6/7 was able to accomplish in VFP 8. I am beginning to wonder if it does work with this new SQL statement type. Everytime I attempt this "Group By" in any sense of my code, it still gives me the information seperately inside the grid. I attempted to re-write the code over and over again, but every version comes out the same or worse. I attempted the MAX() code into the fields, but destroyed my output data into figures that did not match up or correct figures that were placed multiple times.
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>select id_desc,sum_ap_total ;
>>>>from sql_ap_pre ;
>>>>where ap_status = .pcStatus ;
>>>>group by id_desc, sum_ap_total ;
>>>>into cursor sql_ap readwrite
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>The id_desc and totals are shown as:
>>>>

>>>>AP-MISC                        500.00
>>>>AP-OFFICESUPPLIES              500.00
>>>>AP-OFFICESUPPLIES              500.00
>>>>AP-OFFICESUPPLIES             2000.00
>>>>AP-COMPUTERS                  5000.00
>>>>AP-COMPUTERS                  3000.00
>>>>AP-COMPUTERS                  7000.00
>>>>AP-COMPUTERS                  1500.00
>>>>AP-OFFICESUPPLIES               50.00
>>>>AP-MISC                       1000.00
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>where as I am trying to accomplish:
>>>>

>>>>AP-COMPUTERS                  11500.00
>>>>AP-OFFICESUPPLIES              3050.00
>>>>AP-MISC                        1500.00
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>I even narrowed this code down thinking that it was because I have more fields originally, but even when I now have only two fields, it does not come out right. Does anyone please have a solution for this in VFP 8 aside from using the 7 Engine to calculate correctly??
>>>>
>>>>Thank you so much!!
>>>
>>>This works in 6/7 ? What's the logic behind grouping with an SQL like this ? I haven't seen your previous problem so there might be a logic in fact which I'm missing. Probably you meant to :
>>>
>>>select distinct id_desc,sum_ap_total ;
>>>from sql_ap_pre ;
>>>where ap_status = .pcStatus ;
>>>into cursor sql_ap readwrite
>>>
>>>I don't see the point to use group by instead. Or you mean this ?
>>>
>>>select id_desc,sum(sum_ap_total) as sum_ap_total ;
>>>from sql_ap_pre ;
>>>where ap_status = .pcStatus ;
>>>group by id_desc ;
>>>order by id_desc ;
>>>into cursor sql_ap readwrite
>>>
>>>Cetin
>>
>>Yes, this process work in VFP 6/7, but the Select-SQL statement was straightforward when the code worked with it. This was the original code that worked:
>>
>>

>>select a.id_no, a.name, b.account, b.name, sum(a.inv_total), ;
>a.ap_status,a.ap_code,c.id_no,c.id_desc ;
>>from vendors_inv a, vendor_accounts b,vendor_codes c;
>>where inv_status=lcoverduestatus and ;
>a.id_no=gnclientid and ;
>!empty(ap_code) and ;
>a.name=b.account and ;
>a.ap_code==c.id_no;
>>group by a.inv_code ;
>>into cursor sql_ap readwrite
>>

>>
>>This worked great! The system calculated the inv_total for each code and summed them together. Then in the end it grouped it by the code into one line item. Thus producing the results wished above.
>
>It should have worked great by chance. So this should work the same way in any version :
>
>>

>select a.id_no, a.name, b.account, b.name, sum(a.inv_total), ;
>       a.ap_status,a.ap_code,c.id_no,c.id_desc ;
>  from vendors_inv a, vendor_accounts b,vendor_codes c;
>  where inv_status=lcoverduestatus and ;
>        a.id_no=gnclientid and ;
>        !empty(ap_code) and ;
>        a.name=b.account and ;
>        a.ap_code==c.id_no;
>  group by a.inv_code,a.id_no, a.name, b.account, b.name,;
>        a.ap_status,a.ap_code,c.id_no,c.id_desc ;
>into cursor sql_ap readwrite
>

Cetin