MS Access alternative to SQL function ROW_NUMBER() - sql

I work with MS Access 07 and need a little help.
I have two tables TbProjectTeam and TbProjectList. I need to compare date of employee turn-out and date of project start. I used that SQL syntax:
SELECT [TbProjectTeam ].[Surname, name]
FROM TbProjectTeam
INNER JOIN TbProjectList
ON TbProjectTeam .[DateofTurnOut] <= TbProjectList.[DateOfStart]
WHERE TbProjectList.[ID] = 1
ORDER BY [Surname, name];
My aim is to replace 1 in TbSeznamUkolu.[ID] = 1 expression with something as ROW_NUMBER() OVER in SQL. MS Access doesn't support this function but unfortunately I need to know row index of all projects. I imagine that will be displayed matching employees for every row.
Can anyone help me please? Big thanks.

MS Access has an AutoNumber data type that sets sequential numbers on records. Your data set would need to include an AutoNumber field to represent the ROW in T-SQL. Since the AutoNumber is numeric you could do > and < functions on it.
The only problem with this is that the records will be numbered sequentially as they are added to the table. If you can control the sequence in which they are added then there is no problem, but if you were to add the AutoNumber field to an existing populated table, the sequence may not match your requirements.
I realise this question is a bit old but I hope this helps.

DCOUNT function in spite of the efficiency issue provides a similar effect:
Just answered a similar answer here: How to show the record number in a MS Access report table?.

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I guess that you're asking about using the order in which you defined your columns in your CREATE TABLE statement. No, that's not possible in Hive for the moment.
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OR is just a string
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That is presentation thing - don't make it a problem for the PK
About "sequence number for that day" (department, year, country, ...).
Almost every time I discussed such a requirement with end users it turned out to be just misunderstanding of how shared database works, a vague attempt to repeat old (separate databases, EXCEL files or even paper work) tricks on shared database.
So i second Tom H and others, first try not to do it.
If nevertheless you must do it, for legal or other unnegotiatable reasons then i hope you are on 2012+. Create SEQUENCE for every day.
Formatted PK is not a good idea.Composite key is a better approach.The combination of day as a date column and order number as a bigint column should be used.This helps in improving the query performance too.
You might want to explore 'Date Dimension' table. Date Dimension is commonly used table in data warehousing. It stores all the days of the calendar(based on your choice of years) and numeric generated keys for these days. Check this post on date dimension. It talks about creating one in SQL SERVER.
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4054/creating-a-date-dimension-or-calendar-table-in-sql-server/

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The question of my query is....
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I'm extremely sorry if my title doesn't make sense.If you guys can give any better please change it..
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I figured out that instead, I can just sort the table based on the Sales column and add a field with numbers 1 to 30000.
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