Comments on: SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY

By: SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #005 « SQL Server Journey with SQL Authority

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:31:01 +0000

[...] Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY If you pull up any application or system where there are more than 100 SQL Server Views are created – I am very confident that at one or two places you will notice the scenario wherein View the ORDER BY clause is used with TOP 100 PERCENT. SQL Server 2008 VIEW with ORDER BY clause does not throw an error; moreover, it does not acknowledge the presence of it as well. In this article we have taken three perfect examples and demonstrated which clause we should use when. [...]

By: SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #004 « SQL Server Journey with SQL Authority

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:31:35 +0000

[...] Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY I have seen developers and DBAs using TOP very causally when they have to use the ORDER BY clause. Theoretically, there is no need of ORDER BY in the view at all. All the ordering should be done outside the view and view should just have the SELECT statement in it. It was quite common that to save this extra typing by including ordering inside of the view. At several instances developers want a complete resultset and for the same they include TOP 100 PERCENT along with ORDER BY, assuming that this will simulate the SELECT statement with ORDER BY. [...]

By: kk

kk — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:24:49 +0000

Simple and nice explanation of TOP 100 + ORDER BY in view, which is useless for ordering.

By: SQL SERVER – SSMS Automatically Generates TOP (100) PERCENT in Query Designer « SQL Server Journey with SQL Authority

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:30:29 +0000

[...] well it is ignored in our the query where the view is used. Here is the blog post on this subject: Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY. Now when you create a new view in the SSMS and build a query with ORDER BY to avoid the error [...]

By: shefalee

shefalee — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:06:29 +0000

I didnt get how percent would be work from inside.
coz when i tried it using view there is no effect of order by
so for what purpose we use it????

By: javari78

javari78 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:59:20 +0000

In 2008 does it still work in stored procedures?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:33:47 +0000

Not sure about the hotfix, my workaround was (using Pinal’s sample from above):

SELECT TOP 100 (select count(*) from HumanResources.Shift ) *
FROM HumanResources.Shift
ORDER BY ShiftID DESC

By: Mohammad

Mohammad — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:46:22 +0000

Hi all,

TOP 100 PERCENT doesn’t work for me on SQL 2008 R2, so I have used TOP 99.99 PERCENT to fix the issue.

Has anyone tried to install the Microsoft hotfix for this?

Cheers :)
Mohammad

By: gue

gue — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:20:08 +0000

Hi Mahboubeh,

Using TOP 99.99 PERCENT or large integer was producing another issue such as performance.

regards,

gue

By: Mahboubeh

Mahboubeh — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:30:34 +0000

Hi All,
You can use:
” Top (99) Percent”
or

“Top (200000000)” I mean a large number that is 1000 times more than your selection records and be sure that all of your selection would be ruturned.
It works!
Just Try It.

Best Regards,
Mahboubeh J.

By: Brian Tkatch

Brian Tkatch — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:54:51 +0000

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By: Probal Roy

Probal Roy — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:14:30 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:46:07 +0000

This is not a bug; it was removed on purpose:

http://blogs.msdn.com/queryoptteam/archive/2006/03/24/560396.aspx

And there are workarounds, such as the following from Adam Machanic:

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/2006/10/03/exploring-the-secrets-of-intermediate-materialization.aspx

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:21:10 +0000

This is also a problem in SQL 2005

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:49:56 +0000

This was classified a bug by microsoft and has been fixed in a hot fix ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926292) which was rolled up in Cumulative update package 1 for SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956717/

By: pinaldave

pinaldave — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:33:36 +0000

Hi Luciano,

This option will not work. Try following script out. It will not work. The whole behavior is not support with or without TIES.

CREATE VIEW vwShift_ties
AS
SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT WITH TIES *
FROM HumanResources.Shift
ORDER BY ShiftID DESC
GO
– Select From View
SELECT *
FROM vwShift_ties
GO

Kind Regards,
Pinal

By: Luciano Evaristo Guerche (Gorše)

Luciano Evaristo Guerche (Gorše) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:03:38 +0000

Hi Pinal,

As far as I remember, when using “TOP 100 PERCENT” clause, one must include “WITH TIES” to assure all rows are returned (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189463.aspx)

Regards,

By: Kalicharan

Kalicharan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:10:21 +0000

Hi Mr.Dave,

Good Morning. I am new in sql 2008 before that i have 2 years experience in Sql 2000. I am working at Private concern as Software Engineer.

In oracle we can create a JAVA class file and we can call that JAVA file in procedure, functions and packages also. My doubt is same like Can we create C# class file in Sql 2008. If possible pls explain if you have a time….

Bye

Thanks & Regards
Kalicharan