Wayne,

You state what I always wanted to hear stated, i.e. that ROW_NUMBER()'s ORDER BY is not the same as the SELECT's ORDER BY. Yet, always - haven't encountered an exception yet, when you perform a SELECT the output is always in the order specified by ROW_NUMBER()'s ORDER BY without the presence of an ORDER BY in the SELECT.

How do you explain that?

Oh yes, those ORDERBY and PARTITIONBY need fixing.:hehe: