Comments on: SQL SERVER – How to Retrieve TOP and BOTTOM Rows Together using T-SQL

By: Gyana

Gyana — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:06:43 +0000

Thanks this helps me a lot…

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[...] How to Retrieve TOP and BOTTOM Rows Together using T-SQL I had to find TOP 1 and BOTTOM 1 record together. I right away that I should just do UNION but then I realize that UNION will not work as it will only accept one ORDER BY clause. If you specify more than one ORDER BY clause. It will give error. In this blog post, I explain how the same can be achieved with simple T-SQL script. [...]

By: Selvam

Selvam — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:20:01 +0000

Hai, i need to get the full dynamic query from a stored procedure without using “Print”

By: Tanmay Kundu

Tanmay Kundu — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:08:56 +0000

how i get value from bottom of table , not desc function use. please help me

By: vkm

vkm — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:15:15 +0000

select top 5 * from Sales.SalesOrderDetail
union
select top 5 * from (select top 5 * from Sales.SalesOrderDetail order by SalesOrderDetailID desc) b

By: Diego

Diego — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:00:28 +0000

I gess in SQL Server 2008 you can use ORDER BY if you use UNION… not UNION ALL.

By: Rajkumar

Rajkumar — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:16:27 +0000

WITH SQN(COUNTRY,ROW)
AS
(
SELECT COUNTRY_CODE,ROW_NUMBER() OVER( ORDER BY COUNTRY_CODE) AS ‘ROWNUM’ FROM SET_COUNTRY )

SELECT COUNTRY FROM SQN WHERE ROW = (SELECT MAX(ROW) FROM SQN) OR ROW = (SELECT MIN(ROW) FROM SQN)

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:54:18 +0000

Please note that SET ROWCOUNT may not work in future release of the SQL Server. You should try to use TOP operator instead.

By: vijay

vijay — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:57:42 +0000

USE COMMAND

SET ROWCOUNT 10

By: vijay

vijay — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:55:37 +0000

you can use
set rowcount
May be it helps

By: Sagar

Sagar — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:26:26 +0000

its helpfull for me…. :)
thankss.!!!!1

By: Jayakumar

Jayakumar — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:06:27 +0000

How to show row wise union Query

how to change this

Select Distinct StdStandard,Count(*)as Cnt1 from Tbl_Students
where StdRegNo not in (Select StdRegisterNo from Tbl_StdFeeAllocation)
group by StdStandard
union all
Select Distinct StdStandard,Count(*)as Cnt1 from Tbl_Students
where StdRegNo in(Select StdRegisterNo from Tbl_StdFeeAllocation)
group by StdStandard

By: Mohanraj

Mohanraj — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:10:01 +0000

Hi,
I am having a 1000 records in a table.I need to select top 100 records first and then again next 100 records and again next 100 records like that.How to write a select query without using cursor or row_number or rank…….?

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:15:33 +0000

select top 5 with ties columns from table order by somecol

By: praveen

praveen — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:55:40 +0000

I have two tables employee table(emp_no,Emp_name,sal)and product table (Prodct_id,prodcut_name) table retrive top 5 redcods from table without duplicate values How………..
Please help me….

By: mithila

mithila — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:12:35 +0000

Hi
I want to select top 4 valus of sql table unsing vb.net win form.. how to do it?

By: cindy

cindy — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:05:34 +0000

Hi, I really enjoy your blog! I am a beginner in MS-SQL and there are many things I still do not know how to do. I have a table where i want to find the winner in a lemonade sale. The table goes sth like this:

first_name sale date
damon 3.50 2007-6-1
damon 6.99 2007-6-2
stefan 1.50 2007-6-1
stefan 2.00 2007-6-2

I want to find the one with the highest sales over the two days. I tried using your code but it doesnt work. I can only use it to find the first n rows in my table. Also, when I try to find the top 3 rows, it returns me 4 rows! Can you plz help me?

By: lex

lex — Sun, 01 May 2011 16:29:00 +0000

That was fun. I was at my wit’s end when I came upon this article. I was trying this query:

INSERT INTO currenttrans ( transactionnumber, transactionsched, transactionid )
SELECT TOP 1 transactionnumber, transactionsched, transactionid
FROM permdatqueue
ORDER BY transactionsched;

Instead of giving me just one row, it gave me multiple rows. So I modified it after reading this article and came up with:

INSERT INTO currenttrans ( transactionnumber, transactionsched, transactionid )
SELECT transactionnumber, transactionsched, transactionid
FROM permdatqueue
WHERE transactionid in (select top 1 transactionid from permdatqueue
order by transactionid asc)
ORDER BY transactionsched;

…which gave me the result I needed. Many thanks!

By: Ric

Ric — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:31:39 +0000

Simple and effective (to Pinal Dave’s solution). I am particularly leaning towards the CTE route, it’s nice, clean and efficient.
Thanks to all! :)

By: mwongera

mwongera — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:33:31 +0000

Have read all comments regarding sql but still cannot find a way locating the Nth record in simple way.

By: Varun

Varun — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:47:52 +0000

Awesome blog. My 2 cents for the problem:

select * from(
SELECT TOP 1 *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
ORDER BY SalesOrderDetailID ASC

UNION ALL

SELECT TOP 1 *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
ORDER BY SalesOrderDetailID desc
) as a

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:47:28 +0000

Without an order by caluse it is not possible. If you have any unique column, order by it

By: Ashish Kumar Dey

Ashish Kumar Dey — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:55:31 +0000

then please tell me how to find out the default records in the table. i need top/bottom inserted records accordingly.

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:39:52 +0000

top without order by clause is meaningless