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Select ID with the Greatest Rank

caippers

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April 29, 2014 at 9:50 am

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I have a table that contains data in the following format:
Here is an example of the table:
ID Source Rank
152 Foo 10
152 Bar 20
How could I query this table to grab the ID with the lowest rank? ID is the PK in this table.
Thanks

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65138 More actions · Answer 1

SELECT TOP 1 ID

FROM

ORDER BY Rank ASC

What about ties (ie two PK with the same Rank)

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183698 More actions · Answer 2

caippers (4/29/2014)
ID is the PK in this table.

If ID is the PK, why is it repeated? PKs should be unique.

Luis C.
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Luis Cazares (4/29/2014)
caippers (4/29/2014)
ID is the PK in this table.
If ID is the PK, why is it repeated? PKs should be unique.

I noticed that but declined to comment on the obvious 😀

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Anon.

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Luis Cazares (4/29/2014)
caippers (4/29/2014)
ID is the PK in this table.
If ID is the PK, why is it repeated? PKs should be unique.

My apologizes. I misspoke. It is not the primary key.

I will never have two ids come in with the same rank.

Thanks for your post but when I tried this I only received the top 1 from the entire result set.

I have multiple ID's in the table:

ID Source Rank

123 Foo 10

123 Bar 20

124 Fee 30

124 Fine 40

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65138 More actions · Answer 5

caippers (4/29/2014)

Thanks for your post but when I tried this I only received the top 1 from the entire result set.

That is what you asked for.

What is the expect result from the data in your last post.

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183698 More actions · Answer 6

Something like this?

WITH SampleData(ID, Source, Rank) AS(

SELECT 123, 'Foo', 10 UNION ALL

SELECT 123, 'Bar', 20 UNION ALL

SELECT 124, 'Fee', 30 UNION ALL

SELECT 124, 'Fine', 40

)

SELECT *

FROM SampleData

WHERE ID IN(SELECT TOP 1 ID

FROM SampleData

ORDER BY Rank)

Luis C.
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caippers Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 522 More actions · Answer 7

Luis Cazares (4/29/2014)
Something like this?
WITH SampleData(ID, Source, Rank) AS(
SELECT 123, 'Foo', 10 UNION ALL
SELECT 123, 'Bar', 20 UNION ALL
SELECT 124, 'Fee', 30 UNION ALL
SELECT 124, 'Fine', 40
)
SELECT *
FROM SampleData
WHERE ID IN(SELECT TOP 1 ID
FROM SampleData
ORDER BY Rank)

This is exactly what I'm looking for! Your help is greatly appreciated.

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65138 More actions · Answer 8

Yep Luis always gives good answers 😉

Nice one Luis, especially from sparse details 😀

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 9

Here is the code provided by Luis and my shot at it as well:

create table #testdata(

ID int,

Source varchar(10),

RankVal int);

go

insert into #testdata

SELECT 123, 'Foo', 10 UNION ALL

SELECT 123, 'Bar', 20 UNION ALL

SELECT 124, 'Fee', 30 UNION ALL

SELECT 124, 'Fine', 40

;

go

SELECT *

FROM #testdata

WHERE ID IN(SELECT TOP 1 ID

FROM #testdata

ORDER BY RankVal);

go

with basedata as (

select

ID,

Source,

RankVal,

rn = row_number() over (partition by ID order by RankVal)

from

#testdata

)

select * from basedata where rn = 1;

go

caippers Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 522 More actions · Answer 10

I apologize for that. I will ensure that I provide more info in the future.

caippers Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 522 More actions · Answer 11

caippers

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April 29, 2014 at 10:28 am

#1709559

Thank you as well!

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65138 More actions · Answer 12

caippers (4/29/2014)
I apologize for that. I will ensure that I provide more info in the future.

It was not intended as a criticism :blush:

See links in Lynn's signature for information 🙂

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Anon.