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    SALAlly is offline Novice
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    Unhappy SELECT TOP query - Only returning 3 values when duplicates are allowed

    Hey,

    I've been developing my first MS Access database for a while now and making some steady progress. I've got various tables and queries set up which are all working well, but am stuck on one particular issue.



    This is an athletics scoring database, which converts an athletes individual performance into scores.

    I'm using SELECT TOP 3 to return the best three scores from a list of performances by any given athlete.
    Sometimes an athlete will score the same points for repeated performances - imagine your best 5 results score 700, 700, 650, 650 and 400 points. I therefore only want to total 700+700+650=2050points.

    My code is
    [code]

    SELECT t.AthleteID, t.AthleteName, t.Gender, t.AgeGroup, t.ClubID, t.ClubCategory, t.EventID, t.UniquePerfID, t.Score
    FROM [T05 All Throws Performances] AS t
    WHERE (((t.Score) In (SELECT TOP 3 Score
    FROM [T05 All Throws Performances]
    WHERE AthleteID = t.AthleteID
    ORDER BY Score DESC
    )))
    ORDER BY t.AthleteID, t.Score DESC;


    [\code]

    What this is doing is returning 700+700+650+650=2700, how do I drop the lowest duplicate score and only total 3?

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    Welcome both to MS Access Forums and Access World Forums where you have also posted this question
    https://www.access-programmers.co.uk...=1#post1572778

    For future info, there's nothing wrong with cross posting on more than one forum BUT you should always state you have cross posted and provide the link yourself

    As I've already explained at AWF, I think you will need to make the subquery into a ranking query.
    Suggest you read this thread where I gave several examples using a Serialize function
    https://www.access-programmers.co.uk...d.php?t=297922
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    SALAlly is offline Novice
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    Thanks for this and some good ideas of where to look and search.
    This thred - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...plicate-values
    solved my issue.
    My code now looks like -
    SELECT t.AthleteID, t.AthleteName, t.Gender, t.AgeGroup, t.ClubID, t.ClubCategory, t.EventID, t.UniquePerfID, t.Score
    FROM [T05 All Throws Performances] AS t
    WHERE (((t.UniquePerfID) In (SELECT TOP 3 UniquePerfID
    FROM [T05 All Throws Performances]
    WHERE AthleteID = t.AthleteID
    ORDER BY Score DESC, UniquePerfID
    )))
    ORDER BY t.AthleteID, t.Score DESC, t.UniquePerfID;

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