Hank,
Honestly, do you think a single line of code should be 8k?
That is 100 lines of 80 column text!
I really think this fits into the just because you can use a bajillion table join in VFP9, doesn't mean that you should category.
>Absolutely agreed: it is useless having the wonderful new complex SQL capabilities, and being stuck at 8192 for SQL statement length!