Jeff,

Thanks for pointing out the link on posting etiquette.

i have read the link when Garadin posted the same link in a reply to this post.

i was preparing some data to...

Thanks for the reply..

i will setup some test data and give the code a try, i will let you know how it goes.

Thanks

LL

lmu92,

thanks you for your help.

the script your provided worked as well...

i am curious to see if there is much performance difference between your script and Mark's

i will test and post...

mark,

thanks for the help... your script worked perfectly!

Even though it turns out that some of the values in the msg_count column were all identical.

your script still was able to...

HansVE ,

thanks for the help.. actually your script pointed pointed out something to me that was a big help.

in our table it turns out that there are rows where the...