Question

I have one query in SQL Server output,

Suppose i have one table (Ex.StudentMaster) having some fields-No unique constraints.
For Ex. RollNumber and Name
The table has same same data. For ex:

RollNo      Name
    1       Yoko
    1       Yoko
    1       Yoko

I want to get only third record. How can i identify this unique record?

Answer 1

Any row is a third row 🙂

create table test
(
n int,
name varchar(30)
);

insert into test values(1,'yoko'),(1,'yoko'),(1,'yoko');

select ROW_NUMBER() over(order by name) as ordinal, * from test;

Deleting the “third” row 🙂

with a as
(
select ROW_NUMBER() over(order by name) as ordinal, * from test
)
delete from a where a.ordinal = 3

Deleting the last row:

with a as
(
select ROW_NUMBER() over(order by name) as ordinal, * from test
)
delete from a where a.ordinal = (select MAX(ordinal) from a)