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>>Thanks for your replies, and I've already looked in Cursor and DB getprop and neither have an "order" prop that I can query...oh well, I'll keep fiddeling:)
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>Hey! It just occurred to me that you could select the order by field as one of the fields.
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>Something like, select *, "partno" as orderby from mytable order by partno.
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>Would that help?

Now there's a thought:) Not as streamlined as I'd like it to be, but it'd get me working for now...THANKS!:D