What TO Do if i want TOP or Bottom In Same Row?

I have this with Case statement But is there is any other Method pls tell me.

Regards

Tarun

i have one problem to get data from table.
My table name is “WorkingHours” it have three field (attributes) DayName, openhour,closehour(DataType to all is nvarchar(10)).

table records like this
1)”Monday”,”1000″,”2000″
2)”Sunday”,”0930″,”1930″
3)”Wednesday”,”1030″,”2030″

upto 7records, dayname are in disorder.But i want to dispaly the
day name in sequencial order like “Monday”,Tuesday”…..”Sunday”
How can i write query to get day name in sequenciql order?

I always enjoy your participation in this blog. Really very nice query and quite an enhancement to my original query.

Would you please create one working example using AdventureWorks database and I will post it on my blog with your courtesy.

Kind Regards,
Pinal Dave ( http://www.SQLAuthority.com )

select
t.*
from
(
select
~cast(row_number() over (order by [field 1], [field 2], … [field n]) - 1 as bit) as _min,
~cast(row_number() over (order by [field 1], [field 2], … [field n] desc) - 1 as bit) as _max,
t.*
from
as t
) as t
where
_min <> 0 or
_max <> 0

select
t.*
from
(
select
~cast(row_number() over (order by , , … ) - 1 as bit) as _min,
~cast(row_number() over (order by , , … desc) - 1 as bit) as _max,
t.*
from
as t
) as t
where
_min 0 or
_max 0

If you don’t want the addition of the _min and _max fields to the result set, then it would be possible to do so using a number of methods, but the general idea is the same (and it would prevent a duplicate table scan as well due to the union).

select max(colname) from Table
union
select min(colname) from Table
order by 1 desc

you will also see i have used “order by 1 desc”
a technique to order by column in union

I really thank you for spending your time on this query.

Regards
Khadar

You are correct. I carefully observed my code and there was syntax error. Your code is correct and I like it. I will post it soon on this blog.

Working example with adventureworks is here :
WITH TopBottomRow
AS
(
SELECT TOP 1 SalesOrderDetailID
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
ORDER BY SalesOrderDetailID
UNION ALL
SELECT TOP 1 SalesOrderDetailID
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
ORDER BY SalesOrderDetailID DESC
)
SELECT *
FROM TopBottomRow

Thank you again for your comment.

Regards,
Pinal Dave ( http://www.SQLAuthority.com )

Thanks for the response.

After seeing your message, I cross checked the same on sql express , workgroup, dev edition and the enterprise editions to track this error. Everything is working fine and so far I never got this type of error in my application.
Not sure why this error is popping up. I will check with other systems.

Thanks
Khadar

Your query generates following error :

Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 5
Incorrect syntax near the keyword ‘asc’.
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 8
Incorrect syntax near the keyword ‘desc’.

Regards,
Pinal Dave ( http://www.SQLAuthority.com )

;with MyTab
as
(
select top 1 * from request order by requestid asc
union all
select top 1 * from request order by requestid desc
)
select * from MyTab

SELECT A.* FROM (SELECT TOP 1 * FROM DBO.SomeTable ORDER BY SomeTable.SomeKey ASC) A
UNION ALL
SELECT B.* FROM (SELECT TOP 1 * FROM DBO.SomeTable ORDER BY SomeTable.SomeKey DESC) B

and if you want to order the results, try:

SELECT C.* FROM (
SELECT A.* FROM (SELECT TOP 1 * FROM DBO.SomeTable ORDER BY SomeTable.SomeKey ASC) A
UNION ALL
SELECT B.* FROM (SELECT TOP 1 * FROM DBO.SomeTable ORDER BY SomeTable.SomeKey DESC) B
) C ORDER BY C.SomeKey

–DA

Don’t make yourself worry about other possible solutions.