Tuesday, March 8, 2011

How to select Nth row from a table ?

how to select a particular row from the table?
Ans:

By using  ROW_NUMBER() Function , we can mark all the selected rows with numbers .
Then use QUALIFY clause to get excat row number.


select
columnA,columnB
from
source_table
qualify row_number() over (order by columnA ) = Nth record ;
Here 'N' being particular row number.

P.S:  The same query can be used to select Top N records;
select
columnA,columnB
from 
source_table 
qualify row_number() over (order by columnA ) <= N;

No comments:

Post a Comment