I surrender. I've not seen such a result from group by in any version yet.
PS: I still believe the values that you say are same are not same.
Try
-copy to a text file
-create a cursor with same struc
-append
-SQL on it
Cetin

>Still the same result. The are multiple values for id_desc that are the same result, which is why I was hoping it would group them together with the approriate sum that was calculated. Like I said strange that it would in VFP 7. If I switch the behavior, it works, but what would the use be then of switching to 8
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