Ken Schaefer wrote: [snip] > Can you use TOP in mySQL? [/snip] No, but it does support a "LIMIT" clause which does the same in it's simplest syntax: SELECT <whatever fields> FROM myTable WHERE myField => myCriteria ORDER BY myField LIMIT 3 (It does have to be specified after the ORDER clause.) For more details: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/select.html HTH, Phil