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September 5th, 2003, 08:56 PM

Robin Bailey

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Ordering Problem

Hi,

I'm having a problem with a SQL statement in a stored procedure, I am building the statement in the procedure because I want to vary the 'order by' clause. In effect I want the top ranking 5 employees to stay the same regardless of the order by. At the moment the statement is ordering the returned data and taking the top 5 out of that list rather than getting the top 5 and then ordering those results.

e.g.
select top 5 employee, post, rank, date, salary from sales where rank <> 0 and year=2002 order by salary

any ideas welcome.

Robin Bailey

September 8th, 2003, 11:09 PM

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not sure which field you want the top 5 of, whether asc or desc, and which final order you want...

... but you should be able to figure it out from this:

Code:

select employee
     , post
     , rank
     , date
     , salary
  from (
       select top 5 
              employee
            , post
            , rank
            , date
            , salary 
         from sales
        where rank <> 0 
          and year=2002 
       order 
           by rank desc
       ) as derivedtable
order
    by salary desc

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