I'm not quite sure what you meant by "only show n times if it appears more
than n times'.   Is the pseudo-code below analogous to what you are trying
to do?


for each surname in
 (select surname from phone-book order by surname)
      {
      print surname no more than n times
      }

Regards
Tim Romano
Swarthmore PA





> > On 2 Jul 2010, at 5:15pm, Peng Yu wrote:
>  > I want to select an entry that appears
> > <=n times and only show n times if it appears more than n times. I
> > think that "group by" might help.
>
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