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Find Nth Max-Min Record - The Efficient Way!

By ashishnaik1, 2005/07/22

It is quite often that we need to find Nth (5th or 8th or 10th) maximum or minimum number of record from the record set.
The solution is different in MS SQL than in Oracle because we have RowNum in Oracle.
Some time ago I got the same problem with a massive table of more than 20 Million records and 56 varchar columns and 1 int column.
I tried different solutions (got from the Internet!) but was disappointed with the performance.
Then I decided to spoil my hands and came up with this solution that is most efficient solution for this problem.


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