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  • April 25, 2013 at 7:04 am

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    faheemahmad14 (4/25/2013)

    thanks a lot for your prompt response

    but my requirement is not to use RowNumber or any other builtin function.

    ROW_NUMBER is ideal for this - can you explain why you can't use it? You've posted in the SQL Server 2008 forum section.

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