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How To Select The Top Values From A Distinct List?

I have a table full of types of differing values however I only what to return the top 100 of these distinct values. In Oracle I used to use the rownum clause but how in SQL Server 2000 is this possible? I am looking for something like:

                    
select top 100 *                      
from (select distinct(col1)                    
from tab1)

Thanks in advance.

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Got it to work with:

            
select top 100 type, count(*) from tab1              
group by type;

Thanks anyway.

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