SQL Group By, Top N Items for Each Group

SQL Group BY, Top N Items for each Group

;WITH s AS 
(
  SELECT StoreID, UPCCode, tds, rn = ROW_NUMBER()
  OVER (PARTITION BY StoreID ORDER BY tds DESC)
  FROM 
  (
    SELECT StoreID, UPCCode, tds = SUM(TotalDollarSales)
    FROM Sales
    GROUP BY StoreID, UPCCode
  ) AS s2
)
SELECT StoreID, UPCCode, TotalDollarSales = tds
FROM s
WHERE rn <= 5
ORDER BY StoreID, TotalDollarSales DESC;

Select top N rows for each group

If there were a constant number per group, you could do:

select i.*
from items as i inner join
     groups as g
     on i.group_id = g.id
where i.id in (select top 2 i2.id
               from items i2
               where i2.group_id = i.group_id
               order by i2.score desc
              );

Instead, you will need to enumerate the values and this is expensive in MS Access:

select i.*
from (select i.*,
             (select count(*)
              from items i2
              where i2.group_id = i.group_id and
                    (i2.score < i.score or
                     i2.score = i.score and i2.id <= i2.id
                    )
             ) as seqnum
      from items as i
     ) as i inner join
     groups as g
     on i.group_id = g.id
where i.seqnum <= g.top_count;

This logic implements the equivalent of row_number(), which is the right way to solve this problem (if your database supports it).

Get top 1 row of each group

;WITH cte AS
(
   SELECT *,
         ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY DocumentID ORDER BY DateCreated DESC) AS rn
   FROM DocumentStatusLogs
)
SELECT *
FROM cte
WHERE rn = 1

If you expect 2 entries per day, then this will arbitrarily pick one. To get both entries for a day, use DENSE_RANK instead

As for normalised or not, it depends if you want to:

• maintain status in 2 places
• preserve status history
• ...

As it stands, you preserve status history. If you want latest status in the parent table too (which is denormalisation) you'd need a trigger to maintain "status" in the parent. or drop this status history table.

Get top n records for each group of grouped results

Here is one way to do this, using UNION ALL (See SQL Fiddle with Demo). This works with two groups, if you have more than two groups, then you would need to specify the group number and add queries for each group:

(
  select *
  from mytable 
  where `group` = 1
  order by age desc
  LIMIT 2
)
UNION ALL
(
  select *
  from mytable 
  where `group` = 2
  order by age desc
  LIMIT 2
)

There are a variety of ways to do this, see this article to determine the best route for your situation:

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-select-the-firstleastmax-row-per-group-in-sql/

Edit:

This might work for you too, it generates a row number for each record. Using an example from the link above this will return only those records with a row number of less than or equal to 2:

select person, `group`, age
from 
(
   select person, `group`, age,
      (@num:=if(@group = `group`, @num +1, if(@group := `group`, 1, 1))) row_number 
  from test t
  CROSS JOIN (select @num:=0, @group:=null) c
  order by `Group`, Age desc, person
) as x 
where x.row_number <= 2;

See Demo

SELECT TOP 20 rows for each group

The easiest way would be to use the row_number() window function to number the rows for each city according to their visitnumber descending and use that as a filter. This query should work in any SQL Server version from 2005 onwards.

select * 
from (
    select *, r = row_number() over (partition by City order by VisitNumber desc) 
    from your_table
    ) a 
where r <= 20
  and City in ('Washington', 'New York', 'Los Angeles')

This would select the top 20 items for each city specified in the where clause.

Get top N rows of each group in MySQL

If you want n rows per group, use row_number(). If you then want them interleaved, use order by:

select t.*
from (select t.*,
             row_number() over (partition by type order by name) as seqnum
      from t
     ) t
where seqnum <= 2
order by seqnum, type;

This assumes that "top" is alphabetically by name. If you have another definition, use that for the order by for row_number().

How to select top N record from every group MySql

There are multiple ways to do this. Here is one using a correlated subquery:

select t.*
from t
where (select count(*)
       from t t2
       where t2.sub_category_id = t.sub_category_id and t2.id <= t.id
      ) <= 10;

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