Ranking in tsql

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Ranking in tsql

ishaan99

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January 29, 2007 at 1:12 pm

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Hi, Has anyone tried this before. I have a table with name and salary . Is it possible to rank the salary something similar as in the ex below
AAA   50,000     2
BBB    55,000     1
CCC    35,000     3
DDD     50,000    2
The last column showing their ranking in terms of their salary. sql 2005 has rank() which solves this but is there anything similar that could be done in 2000. I would really appreciate the code if someone has tried this before. TIA

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David Scotland-132255 SSCertifiable Points: 5599 More actions · Answer 1

You could try something like

SELECT EmployeeID, Salary, (SELECT COUNT(*)

FROM Salaries AS S2

WHERE S2.Salary < S1.Salary OR (

S2.Salary = S1.Salary AND S2.EmployeeID <= S1.EmployeeID) AS Rank

FROM dbo.Salaries AS S1

ORDER BY Salary, EmployeeID

The issue here is that if the salaries are the same you need some way to prioritise one over the other I chose their EmployeeID.

hth

David

Wayne Lawton Hall of Fame Points: 3532 More actions · Answer 2

<<< edited to include the proper order by clause >>>

This may do something like you are asking for...

create

table tblTestSalary (

Name varchar(3),

Salary

int)

go

insert

into tblTestSalary (Name,Salary)

select

'AAA','50000' UNION ALL

select

'BBB','55000' UNION ALL

select

'CCC','35000' UNION ALL

select

'DDD','50000'

GO

SELECT

IDENTITY(int, 1,1) AS Rank,

SELECT

IDENTITY(int, 1,1) AS Rank,

Salary

INTO #RankedSalary

FROM tblTestSalary

GROUP BY Salary

ORDER BY Salary DESC

SELECT TS.Name,

TS

.Salary,

RS

.Rank

FROM tblTestSalary TS

INNER JOIN #RankedSalary RS ON RS.Salary = TS.Salary

Enjoy

Wayne

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004313 More actions · Answer 3

Be a bit leary of queries that have an inequality in the WHERE clause especially when a self-join is also present as it may form a "triangular join" which is a bit more than half of a full blown cross join... they tend to gag real bad on as little as 10,000 rows.

The formula for the number of rows "touched" by <= and >= is (N²+N)/2 or, to see why they call it a "triangular join".... a 10 row self join <= needs to touch 55 rows...

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The formula for the number of rows "touched" by < and > is almost as bad at (N²-N)/2 or 45 rows for a 10 row self join...

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For a lousy 10,000 row <= self join? 50,005,000 rows will be "touched"... obviously, each row will be "touched" more than once.

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Michael Meierruth SSChampion Points: 10051 More actions · Answer 4

My eyes pop up whenever my where clause uses an OR. It can be a real performance killer.

YB SSC Enthusiast Points: 171 More actions · Answer 5

Hi, I don't know if there's a difference in the t-sql in 2005 and 2000, but I know this works in SQL Server 2005:

select employee, salary,

rank

() over (partition by salary order by salary) as salary_rank

from

x_table

order

by salary

if it doesn't I apologize for wasting your time.

PW-201837 SSC-Insane Points: 20805 More actions · Answer 6

>>Hi, I don't know if there's a difference in the t-sql in 2005 and 2000

There is - the RANK OVER PARTITION is a T-SQL enhancement in 2005, which is why various other techniques need to be employed in 2000. Speaking of which ..

SELECT IDENTITY(int, 1,1) AS Rank, Salary

INTO #RankedSalary

FROM tblTestSalary

GROUP BY Salary

ORDER BY Salary DESC

This will not do what you expect. Use of IDENTITY() with an ORDER BY in conjunction with table creation does not guarantee that the identity values generated are in the same order as your ORDER BY.

You need to create the temp table first, then use an INSERT with SELECT ... ORDER BY.

Sergiy SSC Guru Points: 110208 More actions · Answer 7

I would store this kind of ranking in separate column and update this column using trigger when data in the table is changed.

This update not suppose to happen to often, so once someone's salary has been changed trigger recalculates the rank and it's ready for you any moment.

If you afraid to affect existing functionality with adding extra column (or just not allowed to do this) you may create new table with 2 columns: SalaryID, Rank.

Then you setup trigger on table Salary to update table SalaryRank.

Every time you need to take Rank into consideration you just join this new table to your query.

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