Complicated MS Access Greatest-N-Per-Group problem

Question

I am looking to combine the following queries into one, where

• scouting.jumpGate is integer,
• scouting.astroLoc is a string,
• scouting.ownerguild i

Answer 1

How about:

Select  scouting.astroLoc, 
        scouting.galaxy, 
        scouting.jumpGate, 
        scouting.ownerGuild 
From    galaxy Inner Join 
        scouting On galaxy.[galaxy_ID] = scouting.galaxy 
WHERE   (scouting.ID) In (
             Select Top 3 scouting.ID
             From scouting 
             Where scouting.galaxy = galaxy.[galaxy_ID] 
             And scouting.ownerGuild = 'SWARM' 
             Order By scouting.jumpGate Desc) 
Order By    scouting.astroLoc Desc, 
                scouting.jumpGate Desc

Otherwise it seems likely that the top 3 may include some

  where scouting.ownerGuild <> 'SWARM'