Question

I have a table that has some columns: User, Category, Value

And I want to make a query that will give me a ranking, of all the users by the value, but reset for the category.

Example:

user1   CategoryA 10
user2   CategoryA 11
user3   CategoryA 9
user4   CategoryB 3
user1   CategoryB 11

the query would return:

Rank  User   Category  
1     user2   CategoryA
2     user1   CategoryA
3     user3   CategoryA
1     user1   CategoryB
2     user4   CategoryB

Any ideas?

I write the query and specify the Category, It works but then I have to write loops and its very slow.

Answer 1

Use “Partition by” in the ranking function OVER clause

SELECT
    Rank() over (Partition by Category Order by Value, User, Category) as ranks,
    Category, User
FROM 
    Table1
Group By
    User, Category, Value 
Order by
    ranks asc