Help with Top Distinct 2 Records

  • I'm trying to figure out how to find the oldest two distinct records per Patient by Distinct VisitType. I have been going through all of the Top/Max/Distinct posts but nothing seems to fit my scenario.

    Here is the background, a Patient walks into clinic and is assigned (PatientID) this never changes for them. They are then seen for services. Each visit has its own (VisitID) and each visit will also have a VisitType associated with it. (Medical, Dental, Therapy, ect). Each visit also has a VisitDate.

    What I'm trying to query is what was the first two Distinct VisitTypes a Patient has ever had for all patients in our records.

    Example of desired result:

    PatientIDVisitIDVisitTypeVisitDate

    3233398765Dental1/1/2012

    3233398798Medical10/10/2013

    3455599345Therapy8/5/2013

    3455599567Dental10/28/2013

    So far all of the stuff I have tried only gets me partly there.

    This is a generic sample table of the one I'm actually working on. If you would like me to post all of my goofy tries at this please let me know. I'm stuck! I should have never took a break to start learning XAML and C#

    CREATE TABLE visit_info_table

    (

    PatientID numeric(18,0) not null,

    VisitID numeric (18,0) not null,

    VisitType varchar (32),

    VisitDate datetime )

    INSERT INTO visit_info_table (PatientID, VisitID, VisitType, VisitDate)

    VALUES (24356, 765889, 'Medical', 07/02/12), (24356, 765469, 'Dental', 09/02/13),

    (34567, 876576, 'Therapy', 06/03/12), (34567, 987657, 'Medical', 02/01/13),

    (32335, 986543, 'Dental', 09/12/13), (33456, 986577, 'Therapy', 01/04/14),

    (32335, 986553, 'Medical', 10/11/13), (33456, 986566, 'Dental', 01/01/12),

    (32335, 876546, 'Therapy', 11/23/13), (33456, 897654, 'Medical', 02/03/14),

    (34567, 765834, 'Medical', 03/03/13), (32455, 987686, 'Dental', 06/03/12),

    (33765, 876578, 'Therapy', 12/23/13), (32455, 876965, 'Therapy', 07/12/13),

    (33765, 876854, 'Medical', 11/13/12), (32455, 765489, 'Dental', 05/14/12),

    (34567, 986754, 'Therapy', 11/23/13), (34567, 876546, 'Dental', 06/14/12)

    ***SQL born on date Spring 2013:-)

  • Maybe something like this:

    WITH FirstVisits AS(

    SELECT PatientID,

    VisitID,

    VisitType,

    VisitDate,

    ROW_NUMBER() OVER( PARTITION BY PatientID, VisitType ORDER BY VisitDate) firstvisit

    FROM #visit_info_table

    ),

    RowsCTE AS(

    SELECT *,

    ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY PatientID ORDER BY VisitDate) rn

    FROM FirstVisits

    WHERE firstvisit = 1

    )

    SELECT PatientID, VisitID, VisitType, VisitDate

    FROM RowsCTE

    WHERE rn <= 2

    Note that your sample data doesn't match your expected results.

    Luis C.
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  • Perhaps something like this?; WITH VisitTypes AS (

    SELECT PatientID, VisitType, ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( PARTITION BY PatientID, VisitType ORDER BY VisitDate) AS Cnt, VisitDate

    FROM #visit_info_table

    ) SELECT TOP 2 PatientID, VisitType, VisitDate FROM VisitTypes

    WHERE PatientID = 32333

    AND Cnt = 1

    ORDER BY VisitDate

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  • MyDoggieJessie (3/27/2014)


    Perhaps something like this?; WITH VisitTypes AS (

    SELECT PatientID, VisitType, ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( PARTITION BY PatientID, VisitType ORDER BY VisitDate) AS Cnt, VisitDate

    FROM #visit_info_table

    ) SELECT TOP 2 PatientID, VisitType, VisitDate FROM VisitTypes

    WHERE PatientID = 32333

    AND Cnt = 1

    ORDER BY VisitDate

    That would only give the result for one patient and not all the patients.

    Luis C.
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    Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

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  • Of course, I was just matching the required output that the OP requested. This would need to be removed for a full result set. I liked your approach, you beat me to the reply 🙂

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  • Thanks guys! Your fine gentlemen :cool

    Luis yours seems to work for me, thank you very much. My first whack at it was using a CTE, I then tried a half a dozen other ways but always seemed to end up just getting the one patient and not all of them.

    Thanks so much!:-D

    ***SQL born on date Spring 2013:-)

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