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Count Characters in a Field

This command will create a field named addcount and populate it with the number of characters in the address field,  and it will sort and put the highest number as the top

ALTER TABLE ALIAS() ADD COLUMN addcount

Replace all addcount with PADL(ALLT(STR(LEN(ALLT(address)))),3,"0")

Index on last descending tag mytag

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