That's the way education is though. when I was in undergrad, one of my professors said something like "You thought I was here to teach you. That's where you're mistaken:...

It's okay to be new. But please post what you tried in order to solve the problem. one thing it does is it forces you to recreate the problem for...

I'd submit a tested query, but I don't have any data to test it on... so, all I can offer is a vague generality.

If you use CROSS APPLY, you can...

I'm not saying that Joe isn't insanely smart. Not at all. He absolutely is. He's just ... (What's the right word??!!) .. inflexible?  Kinda like an Aspie with Attitude?  Perhaps...

Wow. Just wow.

I've heard of "biting the hand that feeds me" but of all the hands to bite, that's perhaps the worst one.

Don't you got no home training??

I didn't have a problem with it. If you want condescending, you have to read some Joe Celko posts.

maybe I'm too tired or too lazy to figure out what you wrote, but why not just use a window and order the rows in the window by date descending,...

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So create a temporary table and insert the records there, and then create the cursor based on that?

(I guess ideally you'd create the temporary objects inside your stored procedure, and...

If the index is created, you should be able to find it in the sys.indexes table

sys.indexes (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn

Can you use the upsizing wizard?

Move Access data to a SQL Server database by using the Upsizing Wizard - Microsoft Support

You should be able to connect to mdb files from SQL Server using Jet 4.0 and then query those, including creating new tables based on the data in the tables...

Oh wait... if you have a version working in SQL Server, why not just upgrade that or move it to the 2014 or whatever instance... backup on 2008, move file...

Is it accdb format or mdb?

MDB uses Jet, and that seems to work. you haven't provided enough information to help you though.

Maybe try utteracces.com  - that's an Access site and...

"Living with Broken Software"... Sounds like every day using PowerBI. They've been working on it for like 10 years and it's STILL broken. when I start creating a measure the...

LOL.

No, the point of that is so that people trying to help can have some data to work with. That's just template code... doesn't actually insert any records.