How do I use ROW_NUMBER()?

Question

I want to use the ROW_NUMBER() to get...

1. To get the max(ROW_NUMBER()) --> Or i guess this would also be the count of all rows

Answer 1

select 
  Ml.Hid,
  ml.blockid,
  row_number() over (partition by ml.blockid order by Ml.Hid desc) as rownumber,
  H.HNAME 
from MIT_LeadBechmarkHamletwise ML
join [MT.HAMLE] h on ML.Hid=h.HID

Answer 2

ROW_NUMBER() returns a unique number for each row starting with 1. You can easily use this by simply writing:

ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY 'Column_Name' DESC) as ROW_NUMBER

Answer 3

You can use Row_Number for limit query result.

Example:

SELECT * FROM (
    select row_number() OVER (order by createtime desc) AS ROWINDEX,* 
    from TABLENAME ) TB
WHERE TB.ROWINDEX between 0 and 10

-- With above query, I will get PAGE 1 of results from TABLENAME.

Answer 4

For the first question, why not just use?

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM myTable 

to get the count.

And for the second question, the primary key of the row is what should be used to identify a particular row. Don't try and use the row number for that.

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If you returned Row_Number() in your main query,

SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (Order by Id) AS RowNumber, Field1, Field2, Field3
FROM User

Then when you want to go 5 rows back then you can take the current row number and use the following query to determine the row with currentrow -5

SELECT us.Id
FROM (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY id) AS Row, Id
     FROM User ) us 
WHERE Row = CurrentRow - 5   

Answer 5

This query:

SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY UserId) From Users WHERE UserName='Joe'

will return all rows where the UserName is 'Joe' UNLESS you have no UserName='Joe'

They will be listed in order of UserID and the row_number field will start with 1 and increment however many rows contain UserName='Joe'

If it does not work for you then your WHERE command has an issue OR there is no UserID in the table. Check spelling for both fields UserID and UserName.

Answer 6

You can use this for get first record where has clause

SELECT TOP(1) * , ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY UserId) AS rownum 
FROM     Users 
WHERE    UserName = 'Joe'
ORDER BY rownum ASC