What is the use of WITH TIES keyword in SELECT statement in SQL Queries?

Question

SELECT TOP 5 WITH TIES EmpNumber,EmpName 
FROM Employee 
Order By EmpNumber DESC

This above query return more than five result, What is the use of \"Wi

Answer 1

From here

Using TOP WITH TIES to include rows that match the values in the last row

If you want to use TOP WITH TIES you must use order by.

Create Table

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Products](
[Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[ProductName] [nvarchar](50) NULL,
[Price] [float] NULL) 
GO

The following illustrates the INSERT statement that inserts rows into an existing table

INSERT INTO [dbo].[Products] VALUES ('Bicycle 1' , 258.2)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Products] VALUES ('Bicycle 2' , 265.3)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Products] VALUES ('Bicycle 3' , 267.8)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Products] VALUES ('Bicycle 4' , 268.9)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Products] VALUES ('Bicycle 5' , 267.9)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Products] VALUES ('Bicycle 6' , 267.9)
GO

then

SELECT TOP 4 WITH TIES
ProductName, Price
FROM Products
ORDER BY Price

In this example, the two expensive product has a list price of 267.9. Because the statement used TOP WITH TIES, it returned one more products whose list prices are the same as the forth one.