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constantinos1987
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25 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-29 : 12:47:15

i want to find the 3 customers with the maximum sales_amount. in case of draw i would like to project all of them

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-29 : 12:49:57

[code]select top 3 * with ties from your table order by sales_amount desc[/code]

snSQL
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1837 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-29 : 23:41:21

That should be

select top 3 with ties * 
from your table 
order by sales_amount desc

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-30 : 01:34:55

or if sql 2000 use


select * from yourtable t
inner join 
(select top 3 sales_amount 
from yourtable  
order by sales_amount desc) tmp
on tmp.sales_amount=t.sales_amount

snSQL
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1837 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-30 : 01:40:57

quote:

Originally posted by visakh16

or if sql 2000 use


select * from yourtable t
inner join 
(select top 3 sales_amount 
from yourtable  
order by sales_amount desc) tmp
on tmp.sales_amount=t.sales_amount

TOP x WITH TIES is available in SQL Server 2000

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-30 : 01:46:08

quote:
Originally posted by snSQL

quote:
Originally posted by visakh16

or if sql 2000 use

select * from yourtable t
inner join
(select top 3 sales_amount
from yourtable
order by sales_amount desc) tmp
on tmp.sales_amount=t.sales_amount

TOP x WITH TIES is available in SQL Server 2000

yup it is
i thought its available only from 2005

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