>hi,
>thank you for reply.
>
>at mytable field(flage) i have many records with flag=1,
> many records with flage=2, and flage=3 s etc...,
>i need to get 5 records form flag=1 ,5 record form flage=2,and 5 records from flag=3 ..etc to insert to new table.
>
>thanks
One way to do this is like this:
select table1
set order to "flag"
for i = 1 to 20
seek i
copy next 5 to temp while flag = i
select table2
append from temp
next
This will get the first 5 records in each group. If you want to select records randomly, it will be a little more complicated.
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