Thanks to All Who Responded.

I'm sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner, but
I've been re-writing most of the database access code
in my project, and the code that uses it.

My problem is that I was using SELECT * when I
could only needed to populate a list from which the
user selects. SELECT * is used to populate the
display of the record, which the user can edit.

So I replaced my SELECT * with the select you saw,
and things are looking a lot better.

The information you provided convinced me not to
waste a bunch of time re-writing the application in
ESQL.

Thanks
Larry