Please Excuse the newbie question, but I have not been able to figure
out how to do the following on my own. Assume I have a table called
'reviews' and in that table there are three columns: reviewDateTime,
reviewID, and reviewItem. reviewItem is not unique, the other two are.

What I want to do in pseudo-code is write a select query that will:

for each unique reviewItem select 5 reviewID by reviewDateTime
ascending

Any ideas?

Use a subquery to limit the query to the first 5 for the reviewItem based on
ascending reviewDateTime.

Something like this:

SELECT * FROM Table1
WHERE reviewItem IN
(SELECT TOP 5 reviewItem
FROM Table1 AS Dupe
WHERE Dupe.reviewItem = Table1.reviewItem
ORDER BY Dupe.reviewDateTime);

If subqueries are new, see:
How to Create and Use Subqueries
at:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=209066

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

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Please Excuse the newbie question, but I have not been able to figure
out how to do the following on my own. Assume I have a table called
'reviews' and in that table there are three columns: reviewDateTime,
reviewID, and reviewItem. reviewItem is not unique, the other two are.
>
What I want to do in pseudo-code is write a select query that will:
>
for each unique reviewItem select 5 reviewID by reviewDateTime
ascending
>
Any ideas?
>

On Feb 28, 3:41 pm, "Allen Browne" <AllenBro...@SeeSig.Invalidwrote:

Use a subquery to limit the query to the first 5 for the reviewItem based on
ascending reviewDateTime.
>
Something like this:
>
SELECT * FROM Table1
WHERE reviewItem IN
(SELECT TOP 5 reviewItem
FROM Table1 AS Dupe
WHERE Dupe.reviewItem = Table1.reviewItem
ORDER BY Dupe.reviewDateTime);
>
If subqueries are new, see:
How to Create and Use Subqueries
at:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=209066
>
--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia
Tips for Access users -http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.
>
<j...@jontillman.comwrote in message
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news:1172676016.019416.295710@v33g2000cwv.googlegr oups.com...
>

>

>

>

Thanks, that did the trick!

John, there's now a couple of new article on subqueries.

The first one explains the basics:
http://allenbrowne.com/subquery-01.html

The second one give trouble-shooting tips:
http://allenbrowne.com/subquery-02.html

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.
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On Feb 28, 3:41 pm, "Allen Browne" <AllenBro...@SeeSig.Invalidwrote:

>
Thanks, that did the trick!
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