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  • December 22, 2010 at 6:47 pm

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    GElwood (12/22/2010)

    I have a temp table with 9 fields.( Customer number, size, description, brand, etc.) The table also has a field call bid_price, if two records are identical except for bid_price, I what to flag those records some way so I know I have multiple prices for the same item.

    This sounds like you should be able to use the DENSE_RANK() function (partitioned by the first nine columns, ordered by the bid_price column) to get you the base information. Duplicates would be where the DENSE_RANK() returns a number > 1.

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