Question

Assume I have a table with the following entries:

ID    VALUE    CATEGORY
-----------------------
 1       10    A
 1       20    S
 2       30    S
 2       10    A
 3       50    A
 4       40    C
 5       60    B

How do I write a SQL query so that for each ID if category S exists, it should output that record, but if it doesn’t exist then it should output the entry which exists.
So in my example I would like to achieve the following result:

ID    VALUE    CATEGORY
-----------------------
 1       20    S
 2       30    S
 3       50    A
 4       40    C
 5       60    B

Answer 1

I found a more elegant solution 🙂

SELECT  ID, VALUE, CATEGORY
  FROM  (
      SELECT ID, VALUE, CATEGORY,
          ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ID) as SEQ_ID
        FROM MY_TABLE
      ORDER BY ID, CATEGORY DESC
  )
 WHERE SEQ_ID = 1