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anubhav
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Posted - 2006-06-01 : 05:20:33

Can any one suggest me a query to find n highest values of a column from a table, I mean all the n not the nth or Highest.

for example: to find top ten salaries from an employee table.

chiragkhabaria
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1907 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-01 : 05:23:11

Did you mean

Select Top n From Table

??

If Debugging is the process of removing Bugs then i Guess programming should be process of Adding them.

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-01 : 05:24:58

Always use ORDER BY with TOP

SELECT TOP 10 SALARY FROM EMPLOYEE ORDER BY SALARY DESC

madhivanan
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22864 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-01 : 06:27:56

If you want it generalise then

Declare @top int
Set @top=10

Set RowCount @top
SELECT SALARY FROM EMPLOYEE ORDER BY SALARY DESC
Set RowCount 0

Madhivanan

Failing to plan is Planning to fail

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