Comments on: SQL SERVER – How to Retrieve TOP and BOTTOM Rows Together using T-SQL – Part 2

By: F R

F R — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:19:32 +0000

This is an very helpful solution however, can you show how we can do this with a Group By in the top and bottom queries. It appears I cannot use an OrderBy with a group by. .

WITH TopBottomRow
AS
(
SELECT TOP 1 SalesOrderDetailID, Sum (Sales)
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
Group By SalesOrder
ORDER BY SalesOrderDetailID
UNION ALL
SELECT TOP 1 SalesOrderDetailID, Sum(Sales)
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
Group By SalesOrder
ORDER BY SalesOrderDetailID DESC
)
SELECT *
FROM TopBottomRow

By: roshan

roshan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:49:28 +0000

how to retrieve a particular column.

By: Nimesh Khatri

Nimesh Khatri — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:17:15 +0000

Min Max solution would not work for retrieving more than top one or bottom row. The original solution however will be able to retrieve the top 10 as well as bottom 10.

Deep…. There can be multiple scenarios for this. If you want to add values from existing table then you will have to write a statement like….

INSERT INTO TABLE_NAME SELECT EXISTING_ROWS FROM ANOTHER_TABLE/TABLE_NAME

To insert static values, you could do something like this….

INSERT INTO TABLE_NAME
SELECT 1,2,3,4,5
UNION
SELECT 6,7,8,9,10

By: deep

deep — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:45:49 +0000

Hi ,
I have one query. How to add two row values togather in one table.

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By: FSL

FSL — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:05:11 +0000

Thanks for sharing this.
I was used to do the same as follows:

SELECT * FROM
(
(SELECT MIN(SalesOrderDetailID) AS ID
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
)
UNION
(SELECT MAX(SalesOrderDetailID) AS ID
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
)
) AS t_TopBottomRow;