Tech_Newbie (6/12/2008)

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help please.

I have the following situation:

I want to populate two related tables

Person (PersonID, PersonName, PersonLName)

PersonAddress(PersonAddressID, PersonID, PersonAddr, PersonCity, PersonState, PersonZip, County)

from a table which contains all the data needed

MasterList(PersonName, PersonLName, PersonAddr, PersonCity, PersonState, Personzip, County)

The thing is I am not doing this sequentially, I want to select every 7th person starting from the person in the MasterList table at position 3.

For example:

I have 100 people in the master list

Lets say that I want 30 people to be put into the Persons table and into thier associated address tables.

I want to be able to increment through the MasterList table starting at the person from position 3, and insert every 7th person thereafter into the tables.

If I get to the end of the table and I have not reached my 30 people, I need to loop back around starting at a new position - 2 and then repeat selecting every 7th person from then on out.

Important things:

1. PersonID is an identity, and an auto - incremented value, but within this loop, when I create my entry for Person, I want to turn around and create an entry for PersonAddress, using the newly created PersonID identity value as a foreign key inside of PersonAddress.

How should I write a cte to be able to acomplish this ? Thanks for any assistance provided