Comments on: SQL SERVER – Query to Retrieve the Nth Maximum Value http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/ Personal Notes of Pinal Dave Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:29:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: divanshu http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-208037 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:19:27 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-208037 very nice sir..makes a lot of help..thx.

]]> By: Alok Kumar Ranjan , Bangalore http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-206998 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:48:30 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-206998 select e.sal from emp e
where &n = (select count(distinct(b.sal)) from emp b
where e.sal <= b.sal);

]]> By: Manoj Kumar Singh http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-203959 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:47:39 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-203959 Hi,
This is the very nice query
Regards,
Manoj Kumar Singh

]]> By: Kalpna Bindal http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-192844 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:14:59 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-192844 i want to find the second highest salary from table without ordering table and with no max or count function?
How can i do this???
please reply me…..
thank you..

from Kalpna Bindal
student of 3rd year in B.Tech.

]]> By: sasikumar http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-162190 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:10:02 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-162190 in that where clause, u should specify the column name only. Not a variable

]]> By: sagar http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-133122 Fri, 06 May 2011 03:07:32 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-133122 Thanks a lot,

I have a query, if I replace “N” with 1, then actually it return lowest and highest one salary.

SELECT *
FROM Employee E1
WHERE (1-1) = (
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(E2.Salary))
FROM Employee E2
WHERE E2.Salary > E1.Salary)

Why?

]]> By: sudheer http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-109708 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:21:12 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-109708 thanq sir

]]> By: sudheer http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-109707 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:19:33 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-109707 Thankq sir

]]> By: madhivanan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-108867 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:39:46 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-108867 Make use of this post
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2007/08/27/find-nth-maximum-value.aspx

]]> By: kishan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-108506 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:28:05 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-108506 Hi, can you write a query to find the 5th Highest salary of a table without using inner / sub query.?

Thanks, Kishan

]]> By: Scott Cattell http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-100525 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:38:45 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-100525 Hi,

I am looking to retrieve similar data but in a different way but cant quite get it right.

What i have is a customer table and a Purchases table, and i want to create a view that will give me:

Customer, MostRecenetPurchase, SecondMostRecentPurchase,…

Please help!

Many Thanks

Scott

]]> By: Minakshi http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-77289 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:31:24 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-77289 Hello Pinal Dave,

It works for me.Thanks.

Regards,
Minakshi.

]]> By: Madhivanan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-70283 Tue, 11 May 2010 08:15:14 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-70283 It basically generate serial number based on the salary
It is generated in ascending order of the salary and you use use it in where clause to get Nth maximum value

]]> By: Madhivanan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-70282 Tue, 11 May 2010 08:12:40 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-70282 Why do you want to do this?
The following link has some methods that dont use TOP, min or max

Refer this
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2007/08/27/find-nth-maximum-value.aspx

]]> By: Madhivanan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-70280 Tue, 11 May 2010 08:03:16 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-70280 Note that ROWCOUNT will not be supported (for INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) in future release of the SQL Server. You should use TOP

]]> By: Madhivanan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-70278 Tue, 11 May 2010 08:00:44 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-70278 You should relplace N with a specific value
If you use 5, it means 5th maximum

]]> By: Madhivanan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-70276 Tue, 11 May 2010 07:58:40 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-70276 Refer method 3
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2007/08/27/find-nth-maximum-value.aspx

It is equalent to this method
The idea is to generate serial no based on the value and compare it in the where clause

]]> By: Sambit http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-70235 Tue, 11 May 2010 04:42:57 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-70235 Thanks for your query.

Regards,
Sambit

]]> By: Dhirendra http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-69786 Sat, 08 May 2010 11:49:17 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-69786 hi biswajit,

here N stands for level means which salary level u want to get.
like n=1,2,3,4,5,6……………n,

try it
bye

]]> By: Dhirendra http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-69785 Sat, 08 May 2010 11:44:47 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-69785 hi pinal,

This is dhirendra!
i am quite satisfied by your query.
can u pls breifly give the steps how the query is executed.
waiting 4 ur reply.

thanks

]]> By: Tejas Shah http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-66865 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:05:40 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-66865 Hi Saurabh,

You can use ROWCOUNT property to fetch only five records from query.

SET ROWCOUNT 5;

select * from Employees
ORDER BY Salary DESC

Here I specify ROWCOUNT property to 5, so it will select only 5 records based on query.

By this way you can get top 5 employees having high salary.

Thanks,

Tejas
SQLYoga.com

]]> By: saurabh http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-66819 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:02:13 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-66819 Hi,

I want to get top 5 salary from employee table without using sql function top and min or max.

Thanks

]]> By: biswajit http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-63744 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:22:29 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-63744 i use sql 2008 and this query gives error .the error shows “Invalid column name ‘N’.” what is error pls tell me

]]> By: Madhivanan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-62422 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:35:14 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-62422 Then try methods 4 and 5 specified in this link

http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2007/08/27/find-nth-maximum-value.aspx

]]> By: Madhivanan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/sql-server-query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-61273 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:11:55 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/27/query-to-retrieve-the-nth-maximum-value/#comment-61273 select max(salary) as salary from
(
select salary from table_a
union all
select salary from table_b
) as t

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