I also tried it with:

total [bigint] NULL

Results are the same 10 records

To get the 8 records, the select statement should look like this:

SELECT

st.SalesPersonID

, st.total

, RANK () OVER (PARTITION BY st.SalesPersonID

ORDER...

After correcting the script:

USE TEST

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SalesTracking]
(
[SalesDate] [datetime] NULL,
[SalesPersonID] [int] NULL,
[CustomerID] [int] NOT NULL,
[PONumber] [varchar] (80) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,
[paid] [bit] NULL,
total [money] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX...

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From

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/set-transaction-isolation-level-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15

READ COMMITTED

Specifies that statements cannot read data that has been modified but not committed by other transactions. This prevents dirty reads. Data can be changed by other transactions...

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