>Is there a way to Select...Distinct from a table and have the resulting records be un-ordered, or following the natural order of the source table? I have tried select ... Distinct and also Select...Group By and the results are always sorted.
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>TIA,

AFAIK, no. Distinct is the same as including all selected fields in the Group By clause.

select distinct field1, field2, field3 from table1 = select field1, field2, field3 from table1 group by field1, field2, field3

You could create an intermediate result set that was ordered and then use another SQL statement to order it in some other way for the final result set.

HTH.

P.S. Why do you need the final result set in the natural order of the table?