Adding fictitious line numbers to Invoice

• mbrady5

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  August 26, 2013 at 9:07 am

  #298250

  Hello,

  I am trying to think of a method to append fictitious line numbers to Invoice data without them.

  I am working on consolidating invoice data from several systems and one of them unfortunately does not have invoice line numbers.

  So, for all my systems that do, I a return similar to this;

  Line # InvoiceNumber

  1 12345

  2 12345

  3 12345

  For the one system that doesn't, I get this;

  Line # InvoiceNumber

  NULL 12345

  NULL 12345

  NULL 12345

  What I'd like to do is "simply" add a line number to invoice 12345 so it would look like the above example. Any ideas would be welcomed. Thanks

• Sean Lange

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  August 26, 2013 at 9:12 am

  #1644899

  Use ROW_NUMBER. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186734.aspx

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• mbrady5

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  August 26, 2013 at 9:55 am

  #1644913

  Thank you. That worked perfect.