Howto: SELECT rownumber as unique key.

What kind of rownumber do you mean? If your table does not have an 'ID' column or something similar then there is no sequential number to SELECT.

As far as I know Access does not have any internal numbers for each row.

SELECT yourtable.*, *
FROM yourtable
ORDER BY yourtable.row;

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phileoca,

Im not sure how your solution will give me an extra column with the rownumber?
Can you maybe explain?

Thank you

I just need to select the rownumber in my SELECT statement.


The reason why I need this...
I have two queries that both does a SELECT TOP 5, there is no common key between the two queries, hence I need to create my own somehow, I was hoping I could use rownumbers 1->5.

I need to select * (all 5 rows) from both these two queries, but instead of having 25 rows returned I only need a total of 5 rows (2 columns) in order to do that I need a key between the two.

Does any of the above make sense to anyone?

Try:

select dcount("Field2","yourtablename","field2<=" & chr(34) & [field2] & chr(34) ) as Sequence, Field2 from yourtablename;

Nic;o)

Hi nico,

Your solution works for a simple select on one table but I cant get it working on my query (I use a query to join two existing queries).

Thanks for you help though, appreciate it

Nico,

I got help from another expert via sql-server sp, I figured I have to move my Access queries over to sp anyway might as well get started...

I really appreciate all the help from everyone, Nico Im sure if I tried your final solution earlier we would have gotten that working, hence I will go ahead and accept your answer.

Thanks again everyone

For those who wanted to know how to do this via sql-server sp: (BulZEye helped me with this)




sorry, extra comma..:

CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.prGetDefectNums
(
  @inStartDate DATETIME,
  @inEndDate   DATETIME
)
AS
BEGIN

  SET NOCOUNT ON
 
  SELECT Top 5
         IDENTITY(int, 1,1) AS ID_Num
        ,[tblFinalDefect].[DefectsMMO]
        ,COUNT([tblFinalDefect].[DefectsMMO]) AS countMMO
    into #tblMMODefects
    FROM tblFinalOK
   INNER JOIN tblFinalDefect
      ON [tblFinalOK].[Buildseq]=[tblFinalDefect].[Buildseq]
   WHERE [tblFinalOK].[FullDate] BETWEEN @inStartDate AND @inEndDate
  GROUP BY [tblFinalDefect].[DefectsMMO]
  ORDER BY COUNT([tblFinalDefect].[DefectsMMO]) DESC
 
  SELECT Top 5
         IDENTITY(int, 1,1) AS ID_Num
        ,[tblFinalDefect].[DefectsEC]
        ,COUNT([tblFinalDefect].[DefectsEC]) AS countEC
    into #tblECDefects
    FROM tblFinalOK
   INNER JOIN tblFinalDefect
      ON [tblFinalOK].[Buildseq]=[tblFinalDefect].[Buildseq]
   WHERE [tblFinalOK].[FullDate]  BETWEEN @inStartDate AND @inEndDate
  GROUP BY [tblFinalDefect].[DefectsEC]
  ORDER BY COUNT([tblFinalDefect].[DefectsEC]) DESC
 
  SELECT t1.ID_Num
        ,t1.DefectsMMO AS MMO
        ,t1.countMMO AS MMOCnt
        ,t1.DefectsEC AS EC
        ,t1.countEC AS ECCnt
    FROM #tblECDefects t1
   INNER JOIN #tblMMODefects t2
      ON t1.ID_Num = t2.ID_Num


END