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Find Nth Max-Min Record - The Efficient Way!

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 […]

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2005-07-22 (first published: )

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