Apparently you can't use ORDER BY on the first SELECT, so I presume that the second ORDER BY will be applied to the combined rows. Thanks Mark
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Conner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:04 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: syntax issue between Access and MS SQL Hi, I have a CF application whose database I ported from MS Access to SQL Server. After doing so I got the following error on a search: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'UNION'. SQL = "SELECT Products.*, Categories.*, Manufacturers.* FROM Products, Categories, Manufacturers WHERE Products.ManufacturerID IN (Select ManufacturerID from Manufacturers WHERE Manufacturers.ManufacturerName Like '%spank%') AND Categories.CategoryID = Products.CategoryID AND Manufacturers.ManufacturerID = Products.ManufacturerID ORDER BY Products.ProductName UNION ALL SELECT Products.*, Categories.*, Manufacturers.* FROM Products, Categories, Manufacturers WHERE Products.ProductID IN (Select ProductID from Products WHERE Products.ProductName Like '%spank%' ) AND Categories.CategoryID = Products.CategoryID AND Manufacturers.ManufacturerID = Products.ManufacturerID ORDER BY Products.ProductName" This query runs fine when the target database is Access. Anyone have a suggestion how to rephrase it or a syntax that works? Thanks! --Ben +-------------------------------------------+ + Ben Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + Web World, Inc. 888-206-6486 + + PO Box 1122 480-704-2000 + + Queen Creek, AZ 85242 + +-------------------------------------------+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:297111 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4