Question

I need to count the total number of rows in a table before the certain row ID.

I have this query

select count (ClientID) 
FROM [Seek].[dbo].[seekClient] 
where ClientID < '12'

which works fine for the case of integer primary key, but I am not sure how to do that in case of GUID ??

Kindly help me in this case.

Thanks

Answer 1

Short answer, this isn’t possible, see this link. Most specifically:

Globally unique identifiers are typically not human readable, and they
are not intended to be read or interpreted by humans

Long answer – what’s the rest of your table structure? There may be a different way to do what you’re trying to do (I would imagine it’s possible using a date created field if you have one)