>Anyone know how to return groups of a particular number.
>I want it to work like TOP 3 but within groups.
>For example I want to generate a cursor that lists all orders but only the first 3 or so line items.
>
>Assuming that all orders have more than 3 items and I want to see the the first 3 of each; I would want to show the following and pitch anything else.
>
>OrderId1
> Item1
> Item2
> ITem3
>OrderId2
> Item1
> Item2
> ITem3
>
>Thanks,
>Chris

Haven't tried it, but you should be able to do something like this:

SELECT OrderID, OrderItem ;
FROM Orders O ;
WHERE OrderItem IN ;
(SELECT TOP 3 OrderItem;
FROM Orders O2 ;
WHERE OrderID = O.OrderID)