Question

I hope following sample code is self-explanatory:

declare @t1 table (ID int,Price money, Name varchar(10))
declare @t2 table (ID int,Orders int,  Name varchar(10))
declare @relation  table (t1ID int,t2ID int)
insert into @t1 values(1, 200, 'AAA');
insert into @t1 values(2, 150, 'BBB');
insert into @t1 values(3, 100, 'CCC');
insert into @t2 values(1,25,'aaa');
insert into @t2 values(2,35,'bbb');
insert into @relation values(1,1);
insert into @relation values(2,1);
insert into @relation values(3,2);

select T2.ID AS T2ID
,T2.Name as T2Name
,T2.Orders
,T1.ID AS T1ID
,T1.Name As T1Name
,T1Sum.Price
FROM @t2 T2
INNER JOIN (
    SELECT Rel.t2ID
        ,MAX(Rel.t1ID)AS t1ID 
-- the MAX returns an arbitrary ID, what i need is: 
--      ,ROW_NUMBER()OVER(Partition By Rel.t2ID Order By Price DESC)As PriceList
        ,SUM(Price)AS Price
        FROM @t1 T1 
        INNER JOIN @relation Rel ON Rel.t1ID=T1.ID
        GROUP BY Rel.t2ID
)AS T1Sum ON  T1Sum.t2ID = T2.ID
INNER JOIN @t1 T1 ON T1Sum.t1ID=T1.ID

Result:

T2ID   T2Name   Orders  T1ID    T1Name  Price     
 1      aaa       25     2       BBB    350,00     
 2      bbb       35     3       CCC    100,00

What i need is commented above, a way to get the ROW_NUMBER but also to Group By in the first place. So i need the sum of all T1-prices grouped by T2.ID in the relation-table and in the outer query the t1ID with the highest price.

In other words: How to change MAX(Rel.t1ID)AS t1ID to somewhat returning the ID with the highest price?

So the desired result is(notice that first T1ID changed from 2 to 1 since it has the higher price):

T2ID   T2Name   Orders  T1ID    T1Name  Price     
 1      aaa       25     1       AAA    350,00     
 2      bbb       35     3       CCC    100,00

Note: in case you’re wondering why i don’t multiply Orders with Price: they are not related(so i should have left off this column since it’s a bit ambiguous, please ignore it, i’ve just added it to make all less abstract). Actually Orders must remain unchanged, that’s the reason for the sub-query approach to join both and the reason why i need to group by in the first place.

Conclusion: obviously the core of my question can be answered by the OVER clause that can be applied to any aggregate function like SUM(see Damien’s answer) what was new to me. Thank you all for your working approaches.

Answer 1

Wow, the other answers look complex – so I’m hoping I’ve not missed something obvious.

You can use OVER/PARTITION BY against aggregates, and they’ll then do grouping/aggregating without a GROUP BY clause. So I just modified your query to:

select T2.ID AS T2ID
    ,T2.Name as T2Name
    ,T2.Orders
    ,T1.ID AS T1ID
    ,T1.Name As T1Name
    ,T1Sum.Price
FROM @t2 T2
INNER JOIN (
    SELECT Rel.t2ID
        ,Rel.t1ID
 --       ,MAX(Rel.t1ID)AS t1ID 
-- the MAX returns an arbitrary ID, what i need is: 
      ,ROW_NUMBER()OVER(Partition By Rel.t2ID Order By Price DESC)As PriceList
        ,SUM(Price)OVER(PARTITION BY Rel.t2ID) AS Price
        FROM @t1 T1 
        INNER JOIN @relation Rel ON Rel.t1ID=T1.ID
--        GROUP BY Rel.t2ID
)AS T1Sum ON  T1Sum.t2ID = T2.ID
INNER JOIN @t1 T1 ON T1Sum.t1ID=T1.ID
where t1Sum.PriceList = 1

Which gives the requested result set.