>Hi All,
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>Is there a way to put into a SQL - Select statement a number that increments by 1 and resets at when a value changes? For instance an incrementing number that resets at each zip code.
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>Aloha,
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>James
In principle no, because you have no control in which order the records will be processed. However, if you do a first SELECT into a cursor (with the NOFILTER clause), then it is likely that SELECTing from this cursor will process the records in order. In this case, I would create a UDF, which accepts the key field as a parameter, increments a global variable or a value in a table, and resets when the value changes.
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