Hi Sergey

Could you please clarify for me how your soln. gets the LAST 1000 recs? I'd've thought that this would get the FIRST 1000 recs in the criteria.

Terry

>

select TOP 1000 unemp_ins_pct from payroll_tbl ;
>	where unemp_ins_pct # 0 ;
>	into array a__gen40 ;
>	order by payroll_tbl.id DESC

>
>>I am selecting a bunch of records into and array as follows:
>>
>>

>>select unemp_ins_pct from payroll_tbl
>where unemp_ins_pct # 0
>into array a__gen40
>order by payroll_tbl.id

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>>The above select statement gives me all the records in the table. What I would like to know is how can Select only the last 1000 records in the payroll_tbl?
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