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  • October 2, 2012 at 8:51 am

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    Smash125 (10/2/2012)

    You are correct. Just wanted to know in one of the queries

    select Product, MIN(status)

    FROM MyCTE

    GROUP BY Product

    the second column says MIN(status) just wanted to know which row its directing and why. May i am asking some basic and stupid question but i need to know

    MIN will apply to all rows in the partition (Product) and return the value which is the smallest in the set. In most collations, 'N' is smaller than (will precede) 'O'.

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