Question

i have a following format of the result set in sql server

TagId   Tag   Views
1       A     1234
1       A     123

i want to get the record with the highest views and ignore the rest, i mean resultset should have only first row

Answer 1

Try this

; WITH CTE AS
(
    select Tagid, Tag, Views, Rank() over (Partition BY TagId, Tag order by Views DESC) as Rank
    from table1
)
SELECT * FROM CTE WHERE Rank = 1