Times Colonist Transcript Database

went through list of topics provided by Leona, assigned new index numbers based on alphabetical order of full text entries and excluding those topics which she instructed should not be included, and adding one new topic "Gold". Emailed her for confirmation before actually making any changes in db. Assuming she's ok, then I'll need to renumber all the current values (and there may be more than one in the topic field of any given record) to a temp value and then renumber those temp values to the final values (which in the case of those topics being eliminated will be null