>Hi All:
>
>Consider the following table:
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>Name Serial_Num
>Joe 001
>Blo
>Moe 002
>Curly
>
>
>For whatever reason, not every record has a serial_Num. I now want to add a record for 'Abe' that will contain the next serial_num, '003'.
>
>How can I retrieve the '002' with SQL similar to:
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>Select bottom serial_num where !empty(serial_num)
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>The problem is that there is no 'bottom' keyword. How do I do it?
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>Thanks,
>
>Yossi
Try
select top 1 serial_num from tablename order by serial_num desc where !empty(serial_num)
HTH
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