Hello, Thank's for your interest Paul. I did a poor job of explaining my problem. Here is another go: For an athlete's first entry in the database I need a column value of 1. The second performance entry of the same athlete would have a value of 2. And so on. I need to apply this retrospectively to ten years of performance records. Ongoing updates are not an issue at present. Thanks Bruce
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