Ranking Functions (Transact-SQL)
Ranking functions return a ranking value for each row in a partition. Depending on the function that is used, some rows might receive the same value as other rows. Ranking functions are nondeterministic.
Transact-SQL provides the following ranking functions:
Examples
The following shows the four ranking functions used in the same query. For function specific examples, see each ranking function.
USE AdventureWorks2008R2;
GO
SELECT p.FirstName, p.LastName
,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY a.PostalCode) AS "Row Number"
,RANK() OVER (ORDER BY a.PostalCode) AS Rank
,DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY a.PostalCode) AS "Dense Rank"
,NTILE(4) OVER (ORDER BY a.PostalCode) AS Quartile
,s.SalesYTD, a.PostalCode
FROM Sales.SalesPerson AS s
INNER JOIN Person.Person AS p
ON s.BusinessEntityID = p.BusinessEntityID
INNER JOIN Person.Address AS a
ON a.AddressID = p.BusinessEntityID
WHERE TerritoryID IS NOT NULL
AND SalesYTD <> 0;
Here is the result set.
FirstName |
LastName |
Row Number |
Rank |
Dense Rank |
Quartile |
SalesYTD |
PostalCode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael |
Blythe |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4557045.0459 |
98027 |
Linda |
Mitchell |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
5200475.2313 |
98027 |
Jillian |
Carson |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3857163.6332 |
98027 |
Garrett |
Vargas |
4 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1764938.9859 |
98027 |
Tsvi |
Reiter |
5 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2811012.7151 |
98027 |
Shu |
Ito |
6 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
3018725.4858 |
98055 |
José |
Saraiva |
7 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
3189356.2465 |
98055 |
David |
Campbell |
8 |
6 |
2 |
3 |
3587378.4257 |
98055 |
Tete |
Mensa-Annan |
9 |
6 |
2 |
3 |
1931620.1835 |
98055 |
Lynn |
Tsoflias |
10 |
6 |
2 |
3 |
1758385.926 |
98055 |
Rachel |
Valdez |
11 |
6 |
2 |
4 |
2241204.0424 |
98055 |
Jae |
Pak |
12 |
6 |
2 |
4 |
5015682.3752 |
98055 |
Ranjit |
Varkey Chudukatil |
13 |
6 |
2 |
4 |
3827950.238 |
98055 |