SQueaL! SQL like a pig!

Penal, your column has been most helpful for those of us who have no choice but to live within the muck that makes us SQL.

possible solution:
change SQL language to support multiple adverbs for select:

select top 1, bottom 1:* from table;

Practical solution for now, read the prior responses, realize and accept that there is no BOTTOM in T-SQL as of this writing.

-Martin

I have a table where i am retriving the top1 record now i wnat to retrive a single column from the row and assign it to a local variable

declare @empid interger
select @empid top 1 empid from emp

but i am syntax error can anyone help me ove rthis

select * from
(
select top 1 * from emp order by sal desc
union all
select top 1 * from emp order by sal asc)
as b

“Check the databse properties. DB compatibility might be set to 80. Row_Number function can only be used when compatibility is set to 90. You can check compatibility level by going to db properties and checking option tab.”

I guess this is where being a web coder vs a DBA is a real problem. I just wasted like two days of my life trying to solve this problem as my queries are literally bringing my website down if I offer pagination. So I apologize for ranting in the previous comment. I will go search for whatever setting on my shared server and home dev server might need to change that this will actually work for me.

However, massive google results saying “there is no rownum equiv in sql-server” did not help the confusion.

Best,
PJ

This page is specific to SQL Server yet there are solutions here that pointedly will not work in SQL Server. Yes, if only we had a rownum function, pagination would be so easy! Instead we have long-lagging queries because they either have to get a ton of records and then use the middleware to restrict output, or they have to make multiple tables and queries and go back&forth trying to “back-end-hack” a solution.

Sorry if I sound annoyed but after wasting my weekend reading search results and STILL not finding an answer, when this has been a question online for literally 9 years now!, is very frustrating!

A nice follow up post to your ‘top and bottom’ entry might be, ‘what if I need to get 10 records from ’somewhere in the middle’?

PJ

I want to show or retrive data in some range
e.g
top 20, then I will write “select top 20 …”

But what if I want top 30 to 40 records, I want to skip top 1 to 30 and show 30 to 40 records
“select top 30 to 40 …” will not work
one soluntion is I am using inner query,

“select * from(select *,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(Order by FirstName DESC)as ‘ui’ from emp) as temp where ui between 30 to 40″
but I want to do this same using single query, so is it possible?
Please reply
Thanx

Jagadish Mori

I hope I have done it…

SELECT *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail WHERE SalesOrderDetailID IN
(
SELECT max(SalesOrderDetailID) FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
UNION ALL
SELECT min(SalesOrderDetailID) FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
)

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).