Top 5 scores query

[John Brajkovich]

I have 10 tables that are identical in structure. They contain a
location code, an employee id for that location and a score. In all of
these tables a location code/employee id combanation uniquely
identifies an employee and is the primary key for each table. Each
table corresponds to a different graded event that employees
participated in. What I need to do is to create a query that lists, by
each unique employee, the top 3 scores that they achieved across the
ten events. Any help?

[Steve]

Yes, rebuild your tables before you go any further. This is only the beginning
of the trouble you are going to have with your table design being
non-normalized. You need:

TblLocation
LocationID
Location

TblEmployee
EmployeeID
LocationID
FName
LName

TblEvent
EventID
Event

TblEmployeeEvent
EmployeeEventID
EventID
EmployeeID
Grade

Now you should see that getting the top 3 scores each employee achieved across
the
ten events in TblEmployeeEvent is simple!
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I have 10 tables that are identical in structure. They contain a
location code, an employee id for that location and a score. In all of
these tables a location code/employee id combanation uniquely
identifies an employee and is the primary key for each table. Each
table corresponds to a different graded event that employees
participated in. What I need to do is to create a query that lists, by
each unique employee, the top 3 scores that they achieved across the
ten events. Any help?