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cecilius
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Posted - 09/15/2002 :  04:10:08  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi, is there an opposite clause to TOP, like LAST for use with select-statements? Or, is there any way to get this:
select LAST 10 * FROM (SELECT TOP 50 * from ...

Thank you very much and best regards

ceci

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Jordan
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Posted - 09/15/2002 :  04:14:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
SELECT TOP 10 Id
FROM Table1
WHERE Id in (SELECT TOP 20 Id
FROM Table1
ORDER BY Quantity DESCENDING)
ORDER BY Quantity ASCENDING

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martybog
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USA
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Posted - 04/22/2004 :  14:12:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The SELECT statement example will not do what you expect. Here is what it will do (try it in any database):

1. Executing within the parens, it will order ALL of table1.Id in descending order and then take the TOP 20 Id values from the descending list.

2. It will take the TOP 10 Id values from that resulting list and order them ascending.

What you end up with is the 10 records which are 20 records from the "bottom" of the list ordered by Id.
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Lewie
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Posted - 04/24/2004 :  02:51:07  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
SELECT Top 10 FUTO,*
FROM (
Select * from
(Select Top 50 <FieldUsedToOrder> as FUTO,* from <Table> order by <FieldUsedToOrder>) a
order by FUTO DESC) b
ORDER BY FUTO
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jsmith8858
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USA
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Posted - 04/24/2004 :  08:12:47  Show Profile  Visit jsmith8858's Homepage  Reply with Quote
the opposite of

SELECT TOP 10 FROM .... ORDER BY A ASC

is

SELECT TOP 10 FROM .... ORDER BY A DESC


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