Glenda, How are you determining the most desired combination for each UID? If you can give us that, it might help in getting you the resultset you want. James -----Original Message----- From: Glenda Wells [mailto:gwells@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 6:15 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Access Queries :VSMail mx4 I know unions dave but not sure how it would help here. the data is in a master table. each UID can have multiple different or multiple identical entries in the master. the desired result is the first desired combination then the second desired and so forth with only one result per UID...the most desired combination. if you're talking union, should it be a union of the master to itself?=20 -----Original Message----- From: Dave Sharpe [mailto:DaveSharpe2@xxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 05:50 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Access Queries Glenda If I read the question property, I thing that using a "UNION" query approach. Are You familiar with how do a "UNION" query ? dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenda Wells" <gwells@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 4:26 PM Subject: [mso] Access Queries Hi All. I pull data in Access like this with multiple types and positions available. I only want 1 record for each UID in the following order. UID Type 1 Position 1 UID Type 1 Position 2 UID Type 2 Position 1 UID Type 2 Position 2 Typically, I do it like this: make table query to extract Type 1, Position 1 then append queries for the other records in order listed. the append queries are based on select queries with a not-in statement so I don't append records that already have the UID in the original table The end result is one table with all types and positions represented and no duplicates. I do it this way because each Type and Position could be multiple in the master table. Is there a better way for this kind of thing...something more straightforward? 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