Question

I have dictionary database and i have created one UI interface ,to place buttons alphabetically , on click of each Letter , i want to fetch first word in the Letter series

Is there any trick or sql query by which i can list out, first word of each series against it’s index

Note : i also have , Index column for each word in the database.

Answer 1

For SQL Server.

select ID,
       Word
from
  (
  select ID,
         Word,
         row_number() over(partition by left(Word, 1) order by Word) as rn
  from YourTable
  ) as T
where rn = 1

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