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  • November 16, 2012 at 7:45 am

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    t.brown 89142 (11/15/2012)

    drew.allen (11/15/2012)

    The problem is that your desired results require that your TABLE1 be sorted in a specific order, but the data provided is insufficient to enforce that order. You have to remember that there is no default order by in a set.

    Drew

    Hence all the ROW_NUMBER() functions in my efforts so far.

    But it doesn't matter if two #Table2 rows have the same Date and Text - as the outcome is the same whichever is chosen as the match.

    But you DO have something to guarantee the order you want in the form of IDENTITY columns.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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