Achieving ROW_NUMBER / PARTITION BY in MS Access

In many cases we can achieve a similar result by performing an unequal self-join on the table and aggregating the results. For example, for data in a table named [MyData]

Ino  TYPE      DOC
---  --------  ---
  1  1800xxc1  3a 
  2  1810xxc2  3b 
  3  1700xxc3  3c 
  4  1700xxc4  3a 
  5  1800xxc5  3a 
  6  1800xxc6  3a 
  7  1800xxc7  3b 

the query

SELECT 
    t1.DOC,
    t1.TYPE,
    COUNT(*) AS [Ino Seq]
FROM 
    MyData AS t1
    INNER JOIN
    MyData AS t2
        ON t2.DOC = t1.DOC
            AND t2.Ino <= t1.Ino
GROUP BY
    t1.DOC,
    t1.TYPE
ORDER BY 1, 3

returns

DOC  TYPE      Ino Seq
---  --------  -------
3a   1800xxc1        1
3a   1700xxc4        2
3a   1800xxc5        3
3a   1800xxc6        4
3b   1810xxc2        1
3b   1800xxc7        2
3c   1700xxc3        1

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