September 2, 2015 at 12:00 am
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Advanced T-SQL Level 7: Ordering Your Data Using Ranking Functions
Gregory A. Larsen, MVP
September 2, 2015 at 3:47 am
The best high-level explanation of Windowed functions I've read so far! Excellent work.
September 2, 2015 at 5:26 am
Good article thank you for contributions this. You have one typo towards the top where you reference zip code 03054 when I believe you mean to say 03064.
September 2, 2015 at 8:52 am
Thank you so much for this article! I've seen and even used these functions a couple of times but I never really understood why they worked the way they do. This was a nice bite-sized chunk of information to savor and swallow.
September 2, 2015 at 5:23 pm
Great article Greg. Concise, informative and to-the-point. I love Window Ranking Functions and could not live with out them.
One minor correction:
A ranking value is just a number, which typically starts at 1 and increments by one for each new ranking value.
This is not true in the case DENSE_RANK - it increments by the preceding number of ties +1; if the preceding value is unique then it increments by 1. And I think it would be more accurate to say that the ranking value always start at 1.
Its also worth noting that, although these four functions are called "Ranking functions", RANK and DENSE_RANK are slightly different than ROW_NUMBER and NTILE. For example, RANK and DENSE_RANK are always deterministic whereas ROW_NUMBER and NTILE are only deterministic when they are sorted by a column(s) with distinct values. Itzik Ben-Gan talks about this here. That's just my 2 cents.
Again, great work sir.
-- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001
September 3, 2015 at 4:58 am
I second that recommendation to fix PostalCode 03054 to PostalCode 030564.. Just a Typo. That proves people did read the article.
Hank Freeman
Senior SQL Server DBA / Data & Solutions Architect
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September 8, 2015 at 2:39 pm
Thanks for the great article.
October 2, 2015 at 6:13 am
ROW_NUMBER () OVER ( [ PARTIION BY <partition_expressions> ] ORDER BY <order_by_column> )
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