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For some reason my reply previously posted wasn't received, so here it is
again.

Jim - have a look at the following

http://www.systeminetwork.com/resources/artarchive/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&CO_ContentID=14895&channel=art&PageView=Search

http://www.systeminetwork.com/resources/artarchive/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&CO_ContentID=14940&channel=art&PageView=Search



Alan Shore

NBTY, Inc
(631) 244-2000 ext. 5019
AShore@xxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/06/2006 11:55:34 AM:

Greetings!

I have a file that, among other fields, has Account_Number, Date,
Sequence
number.

In the file there are multiple occurrences of those three fields.
Example

Account_Number     Date    Sequence_number
            1             20061206           01
            1             20061206           01
            1             20061206           01
            1             20061206           02
            1             20061206           02
            1             20061206           02
            1             20061206           03
            1             20061206           03
            1             20061206           03
            1             20061206           04
            1             20061206           04
            1             20061206           04

What I am looking for is a way to delete all but one occurrence of the
repeated data to get a file that looks like;

Account_Number     Date    Sequence_number
            1             20061206           01
            1             20061206           02
            1             20061206           03
            1             20061206           04


Is this something I can do with SQL?  If so, what would the SQL statement
look like?


Jim

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