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Posted Monday, October 29, 2012 9:39 PM

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Comments posted to this topic are about the item LEAD - 1

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

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Posted Monday, October 29, 2012 10:18 PM

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Hey Ron, There seems to be some confustion with answer choices here. When we have ORDER BY caluse on Sales, it will order the results in the following fashion:

UserId      UserName Sales
----------- -------- ---------------------------------------
6           Easy     50.00
1           Joe      100.00
3           Charlie  400.00
2           Baker    700.00
4           Able     800.00
5           XRay     1000.00

Now when we apply LEAD function over this, XRay will have NULL value not EASY as mentioned in the ansewer choices.

Please verify!

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Posted Monday, October 29, 2012 11:43 PM

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Thanks for the intro to a new SQL 2012 function (Making me itch for our app to move on from 2005!). I love the idea of this new function -- much simpler than isolating a Row_Number() in a CTE or doing self-joins.

As Lokesh implies, there may have been some ambiguity in the way this was constructed, or maybe just a disconnect between the SQL code and the stated question. I got my answer by researching BOL on the web (had to -- see above), but assumed that where the question said "sales goal", it meant the LEAD result given an alias "sales" in the SQL. I tlooks as though the LEAD function is ordered by the Sales column in the temp table, whereas the results are ordered by the alias "Sales" assigned to the output of LEAD. My responses were scored as "correct", so now I'm wondering what really happens.

Lokesh, did you run the code with the LEAD function?
Ron, can you confirm?

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Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:01 AM

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Hi John,

Here is the output what I am getting:

  USERID   USERNAME    SALES  
------------------------------
       5       XRay   NULL  
       6       Easy      100  
       1        Joe      400  
       3    Charlie      700  
       2      Baker      800  
       4       Able     1000

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Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:23 AM

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Thanks for question about the new feature of MSSQL 2012!

Lokesh Vij (10/29/2012)

Hey Ron, There seems to be some confustion with answer choices here. When we have ORDER BY caluse on Sales, it will order the results in the following fashion:

UserId      UserName Sales
----------- -------- ---------------------------------------
6           Easy     50.00
1           Joe      100.00
3           Charlie  400.00
2           Baker    700.00
4           Able     800.00
5           XRay     1000.00

Now when we apply LEAD function over this, XRay will have NULL value not EASY as mentioned in the ansewer choices.

Please verify!

The "Sales value for User Easy" mentioned in the first two options means "the result of the query SELECT Sales FROM #Users1 WHERE UserName = 'Easy' ". Therefore, the "Sales value for User Easy" is equal to 50.00.
Below is the result of the QOTD query:

UserId      UserName SalesGoal
----------- -------- ---------------------------------------
6           Easy     100.00
1           Joe      400.00
3           Charlie  700.00
2           Baker    800.00
4           Able     1000.00
5           XRay     NULL

The value 50.00 does not appear in the results, so I see no problem with the answer given.

The only confusion has been pointed out by john.arnott. The alias of the "LEAD (Sales,1) OVER (ORDER BY Sales)" should have been "SalesGoal", not "Sales".

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Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:31 AM

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vk-kirov (10/30/2012)

Thanks for question about the new feature of MSSQL 2012!

Lokesh Vij (10/29/2012)

Hey Ron, There seems to be some confustion with answer choices here. When we have ORDER BY caluse on Sales, it will order the results in the following fashion:

UserId      UserName Sales
----------- -------- ---------------------------------------
6           Easy     50.00
1           Joe      100.00
3           Charlie  400.00
2           Baker    700.00
4           Able     800.00
5           XRay     1000.00

Now when we apply LEAD function over this, XRay will have NULL value not EASY as mentioned in the ansewer choices.

Please verify!

The "Sales value for User Easy" mentioned in the first two options means "the result of the query SELECT Sales FROM #Users1 WHERE UserName = 'Easy' ". Therefore, the "Sales value for User Easy" is equal to 50.00.
Below is the result of the QOTD query:

UserId      UserName SalesGoal
----------- -------- ---------------------------------------
6           Easy     100.00
1           Joe      400.00
3           Charlie  700.00
2           Baker    800.00
4           Able     1000.00
5           XRay     NULL

The value 50.00 does not appear in the results, so I see no problem with the answer given.

The only confusion has been pointed out by john.arnott. The alias of the "LEAD (Sales,1) OVER (ORDER BY Sales)" should have been "SalesGoal", not "Sales".

May be I am interpretting it wrongly, "the sales value for user EASY does not appear in the result" --> I thougt this means "sales value corresponding to user EASY should be NULL", which indeed is not the case Smile

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Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:01 AM

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oh , I got it wrong , I thought instead of null, it will give default 0 as output..
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learned something though Wink

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Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:26 AM

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Really interesting question, thanks Ron
Some really interesting new functionality that comes with SQL2012.

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Great question! Always good to have some 2012 questions.

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Thanks Ron.

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