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Subject: Retrieve (n) records from each group
From: dmmueller@xxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:45:20 -0500
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All,
I want to pull a given amount of records from each "group by" category.

Given statement below, I only get (5) records from the first group. How
can I change this to give me 5 records from each group?

select code, member from mylib.myfile
group by code, member
order by mlcode desc
Limit 5

Diane

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Follow-Ups:

RE: Retrieve (n) records from each group , Birgitta Hauser
RE: Retrieve (n) records from each group , Hiebert, Chris

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