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  3. January 2002

Re: Can you do this in SQL

Alan,

Until you added the Year field, I was going to suggest trying an Import into
another table sorting by the sales amount.  Then Updating the Rank field with
the RRN() function.

Bill

> Well actually Rob I simplified the file for the excercise.  I'll also have a
> year field and then I can see who was number what in each year, that is the
> real need for the rank field.  I can and will easily do this in RPG but just
> wondered if there was an SQL function.



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