Hi Naomi. Thanks for replying.

That nearly works,
I get Top 20 ok but the Customer Number duplicates

My Table would not ncessarily have unique occurences i.e. there could be multiple occurences of the same Area and Customer
Would that be the reason and would I also need to do some sort of Grouping

Regards,
Gerard



>>I have a table like:
>>Area, Customer,Value
>>
>>Is there one Sql command which will select the Top 20 Cusotmers, By Value in each Area ?
>>Tia
>>Gerard
>
>SQL 2005+
>

>;with cte as (select *, row_Number() over (partition by Area order by [Value] DESC) as [Row] FROM CustomersInfo)
>
>select * from cte where Row <=20