The differences: - With SEEK you can search with descending order ( for found the bottom ), SEEK() have not this possibility. - With SEEK() you can use the a field reference without the alias, with SEEK you cannot do this
* table1 id * table2 id
select table1 SEEK id IN table2 && is SEEK table2.id IN table2 SEEK(id,'Table2') && is SEEK(table1.id,'Table2')
When they use only the workarea with names of alias random, this becomes important.