Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 04/05/06 00:35

Sergey (afanas01@gmail.com) writes:
> SQL 2000 does not have this pseudo-column. It is introduced in 2005.
> The only way I know how to way around it is to dump your query into
> temp. table that has anextra column (let's call it rowID ) which is an
> auto-increment.

Neither does SQL 2005 have any pseudo-column. row_number() is a function,
and you can set it up so that it restarts on some defined partition.



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