Hi! I have a problem with getting the order I want on a table after new rows have been inserted. I try to simplify it...:
I want to have a one-to-one relationship between 'name' and 'full'. Every 'name' (or'full') have one or more 'parts'. The higher the 'score' the lower the 'full', but for my program I have to keep every row with the same 'name' next to each other, with ascending 'part' number. I don't want to use 'name' as an identifier since they can be long sentences. In other words, I have this old table: SELECT * from table ORDER BY full,part; name full part score ---- --- --- ----- a 1 1 900 a 1 2 500 b 2 1 800 c 3 1 700 c 3 2 600 c 3 3 500 and I insert these rows into the same table: (there's nothing I can do about these 'full' values) d 1 1 1000 d 1 2 400 e 2 1 900 e 2 2 500 f 3 1 700 g 4 1 600 And after some manipulation (that I hope someone can help me with) I want the query above (SELECT * from table ORDER BY full,part) to give this: d 1 1 1000 d 1 2 400 a 2 1 900 e 3 1 900 b 4 1 800 c 5 1 700 c 5 2 600 c 5 3 500 f 6 1 700 g 7 1 600 rather than a 1 1 900 a 1 2 500 d 1 1 1000 d 1 2 400 b 2 1 800 e 2 1 900 e 2 2 500 c 3 1 700 c 3 2 600 c 3 3 500 f 3 1 700 g 4 1 600 Very grateful for any feedback! Marcus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])