thanks, Tamar has beaten you on that.<s>
As I answerded Tamar the install of VFP9 must have changed the settings I used to use


Thanks anyway.


(A poor worker always blames his tools)


Peter


>Use

SET DELETE ON

before runing select. You cannot use functions that expect alias as parameter in multitable selects.
>>
>>

>>SELECT claims.claimno,links.startdate,claimnt.lname,statute.statgrp_id,links.link_id  FROM claims;
>>left JOIN links ON claims.claim_id=links.parent_id;
>>left JOIN claimnt ON links.child_id=claimnt.claimnt_id;
>>left JOIN statute ON links.statute_id=statute.statute_id;
>>where links.ltype="CLCT" AND claims.claim_id=49142 ;
>>AND NOT DELETED()
>>

>>
>>it returns 6 records instead of 2 (4 are deleted in the links table)
>>I thought and not deleted would eliminate deleted records???
>>
>>Claimno Startdate Lname Statgrp_id Link_id
>>200400014 / / Hypolite 310 380438
>>200400014 09/07/04 Muehlfeld 306 1391281
>>200400014 11/13/04 ABBAGNARO 0 1391311 deleted!
>>200400014 11/13/04 ABBATE 0 1391312 deleted!
>>200400014 11/18/04 306 1391320 deleted!
>>200400014 11/18/04 306 1391321 deleted!
>>
>>
>>What am I doing wrong??
>>
>>Peter