Jim, Vernon and Birgitta, let me enter this thread since I'm interested 
in an additional detail:
Apart from the comments about using names, asc/desc, etc... Can you get 
the grouping at, say, two or more levels of grouping?
I mean, (grouping) giving totals for, at number_field/year/month level, 
as in Vern's SELECT sentence, ... PLUS ...
  PLUSand also higher level (number_field/year , and number_field) 
Totals in same SELECT  in an "interspersed" (did I spell it right?) way 
as shown below.
Note: I've edited results with blank lines in between and horizontal 
displacements at different level totals just to make things more clear, 
but that would not be needed , of course!
Number    Year    Month   Count  Total amount
001         1998       11         xx       99.99
001         1998       12         xx      999.99
001         1998                            1099.98
001         1999       11         xx       99.99
001         1999       12         xx      999.99
001         1999                            1099.98
001                                           2199.96
002         1999       11         01      200.01
002         1999       06         55     1234.56
002         1999                            1434.57
002                                           1434.57
TIA,
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Vernon Hamberg wrote:
select number_field,
    year(date_field) as year_field,
    month(date_field) as month_field,
    count(*) as num_occurrences,
    sum(amount_field') as total_amt
 from somelib/somefile
 group by number_field, year(date_field), month(date_field)
 order by 1, 2, 3
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