>>Is there a way in an sql statement to have a field that would number the records 1 through whatever, only giveing the records with a unique field the number 1 and those that have the same data in a particular field to increment by 1?
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>I don't know whether there is a fast, easy, built-in way - but you can write a small UDF, that either increments a variable, or gets a field from disk, and resets when the value (passed as a parameter) changes.
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>HTH, Hilmar.
Of course, you would invoke the function from the SQL command.
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