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                                         chiragvm 
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                                            | Hi to all need help to select top 20 records from table i have a table in which approx 10000 records associated with userId their is only 2 column ProjectId,userid, one user can have multiple projects i want to write down a query which returns me user wise top 20 records  user 1 has 20 project user 2 has 20 project assume that i have 5 users and each user has 50 projects, then query will return me a 100 rows each user has 20 records-------------Chirag India Sr.Software Engineer | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     visakh16 
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                                            Posted - 2014-08-02 : 05:47:12
                                          
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                                          | [code]SELECT userid,projectidFROM(SELECT *,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY userid ORDER BY projectid) AS Seq)tWHERE Seq <= 20ORDER BY userid,seq[/code]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/https://www.facebook.com/VmBlogs  | 
                                         
                                        
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