Finding the Lowest Cost Supplier

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Finding the Lowest Cost Supplier

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DoktorD1313
Starting Member

1 Post

Posted - 2013-08-21 : 16:12:49

Ok, here's what I'm trying to do.

I have a table with four important columns (only four important to this problem, anyway).

One column is ID (the primary key), second is ItemID, third is SupplierID, and the last is Cost.

This table contains one row for every item/supplier pair that exists in the store.

In other words, if a particular caulking is ItemID '871111' and had two suppliers '197' and '62', the table would look like

ID | ItemID | SupplierID | Cost |
| | | |
81 |871111 |197 |1.27 |
82 |871111 |62 |1.17 |
83 |253165 |197 |.95 |
84 |253165 |62 |1.05 |

I'm looking for a query that would return the lowest cost for each unique ItemID in the table to show the lowest cost vendor.

What I'm looking for it to return would be:

ID | ItemID | SupplierID | Cost |
| | | |
82 |871111 |62 |1.17 |
83 |253165 |197 |.95 |

From there I'd be able to update my item file with the primary vendor being the cheapest.

I'm starting to tear my hair out trying to think of how to do this. I have a feeling the answer is staring me in the face. I just can't see it with my tunnel vision.

James K
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

3873 Posts

Posted - 2013-08-21 : 16:22:40

[code]SELECT ID, ItemID, SupplierID, Cost
FROM
(
SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ItemID ORDER BY Cost ASC) AS RN
FROM YourTable
)s WHERE RN = 1[/code]

sivadss2007
Starting Member

18 Posts

Posted - 2013-08-28 : 06:52:44

SELECT ID,ItemId,SupplierId,cost,row_number() over (partition by itemid order by cost ) as rowid
into #temp
from table_name

select * from #temp where rowid = 1

P.Siva

sivadss2007
Starting Member

18 Posts

Posted - 2013-08-28 : 06:52:45

SELECT ID,ItemId,SupplierId,cost,row_number() over (partition by itemid order by cost ) as rowid
into #temp
from table_name

select * from #temp where rowid = 1

P.Siva

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