>Bruce
>I have installed VFP 5.0 and I dont know if you understood me
>in my table I want to retrieve the 3 record with the highest salary.
>For each day it may be 200 records sorted dec. so as an example
>for 3 days I need record no 1-2-3 from day 1
>and record nr 201-202-203 from day 2.
>
>I have tried
>
>SELECT TOP 5 *;
> FROM kuttsnt1;
> ORDER BY dato;
>INTO TABLE pertest
>
>but this does not give me the correct result.
>
Oh, that's a little more complex...this SQL won't work for that. Well, you could do something like index on day+salary desc then loop through and insert the first 3 recs for each day to a cursor, then do SQL grouping by day and getting average there. That should be workable...