>I don't know if this will help...but T-SQL has a ROW_NUMBER function...
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>select ROW_NUMBER() over  (order by LastName, FirstName)  , FirstName, LastName from NamesTable order by LastName, FirstName
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Not really Kevin

thats the ROW_NUMBER() in the results not the row of the original data.(I think)

I'll have to sort out a proper key for the data and pass that.

Nick