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This is allowed in V5R2 and up. But I found that it did not honor sorting in descending order in the "with ... as" clause. So

(select name greatones order by name desc)

still resulted in ascending order. I thought for a minute that this made sense, but it doesn't anymore.

If you put your subject into google, you will come up with a few other solutions. One involved a table stored procedure - is that like UDTF's?

V5R2 also has identity columns, but I don't think they can be used in a correlated result set like this.

HTH
Vern

At 11:45 AM 5/5/2004, you wrote:
This would work....

with TmpTable as
        (select name greatones )
select rrn(TmpTable), name
from TmpTable


Only problem would be if you wanted to use an "order by name" it would need to in the TmpTable select and I'm not positive that that is allowed.

May want to look in the archives for other ideas, I seem to remember this
coming up before.

HTH,
Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: meovino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:meovino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:32 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Numbering rows in SQL result set
>
>
> Is there an SQL scalar function or some other trick I can use
> to add a
> column to a result set that numbers the rows in the set.
> Let's say my
> result set currently is:
>
> John
> Paul
> George
> Ringo
>
> I want it to look like:
>
> 1   John
> 2   Paul
> 3   George
> 4   Ringo
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike E.



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