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geckolumo
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 Posted - 2005-09-20 : 02:02:34
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| all, (or anyone for that matter...)I am a little stumped when it comes to attempting the following:What I need is one select statment that selects the top 5 records for each group. i.e. I would like the top 5 stores per region for the following query:select Store_id, Store, Region, [% Chg Cap],[% Chg Rad]from Performance_Variancewhere [% chg RAD]< 0 and Month_end = '2005-09-14 23:59:59'and Level = 'store'Order by Region, Store_idAny help on this is greatly appreciated!txgex |
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madhivanan
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jen
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Posted - 2005-09-20 : 03:03:22
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| will this work?select top 5 fields...from table group by region--------------------keeping it simple... |
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madhivanan
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Posted - 2005-09-20 : 03:11:19
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Originally posted by jen
will this work?select top 5 fields...from table group by region--------------------keeping it simple...
NoIt will select only top 5 records of the first group and not top 5 of each group  MadhivananFailing to plan is Planning to fail |
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Top 5 per grouping in one select???