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Old December 7th, 2003, 04:46 PM
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Finding TOP 1 of TOP 2

I am trying to find the second most popular item color. I am able with the inner query find the TOP 2, but I have not been able to figure out how to formulate the outer query to isolate the second entry. Any suggestions?


SELECT TOP 1 itemcolor
FROM qitem
WHERE itemcolor IN (

SELECT TOP 2 itemcolor, SUM(saleqty)
FROM qitem, qsale
WHERE qitem.itemname=qsale.itemname
and itemcolor <> '-'
GROUP BY itemcolor
order by SUM(saleqty)desc)
Group By itemcolor
order by itemcolor asc

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Code:
SELECT TOP 1 itemcolor
FROM (
SELECT TOP 2 itemcolor, 
SUM(saleqty) as x
FROM qitem, qsale
WHERE qitem.itemname=qsale.itemname
and itemcolor <> '-'
GROUP BY itemcolor
order by x desc) dt
order by x asc

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Old December 7th, 2003, 05:08 PM
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Thanks swampBoogie, just what I needed...

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