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

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

By: Ashish Kumar Dey

Ashish Kumar Dey — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:10:37 +0000

Find out the bottom 8 defaults rows

SELECT * FROM scm_emp_master (NOLOCK)
where emp_emp_code not in
(select top ((SELECT count(*)-8 FROM scm_emp_master )) emp_emp_code ‘emp_code’ from scm_emp_master)

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:04:05 +0000

It means you have data which can’t be converted to decimal

By: selva

selva — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:21:51 +0000

I have writen code below

(SELECT DISTINCT cast(dbo.ParaNu(OrderItemId) AS decimal(38)) AS Expr1
FROM OrderItemParameters AS OrderItemParameters)

but i got error msg “Error converting data type varchar to numeric.”

any one help me what i had mistake ????

Thanks

selva

By: selva

selva — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:43:23 +0000

Hot to get currency symbole from my pc regional setting in sql 2008

Thanks

Selva

By: selva

selva — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:42:19 +0000

Hot to get currency symbole from my pc in sql 2008

Thanks

Selva

By: selva

selva — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:25:48 +0000

Hi All

i have writen query below,

(SELECT TOP (1) DefaultValueList
FROM OrderItemParameters AS oip
WHERE (OrderItemId = oi.Id) AND (Name LIKE ‘B%’)) AS B,

(SELECT TOP (2) DefaultValueList
FROM OrderItemParameters AS oip
WHERE (OrderItemId = oi.Id) AND (Name LIKE ‘B%’)) AS B1,

but i got error “Subquery returned more than 1 value”

but i need parameter will be read like Buch and bracket both ,

how i should read like this