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  • August 6, 2013 at 11:59 pm

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    I wouldn't aadd the sequence number to the original data because it makes it more difficult to use criteria not to mention that it's a form of denormalization. The sequence number should go into a different column. If you absolutely need to append the sequence number to the original data, do it only at display time.

    --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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