Question

I would need a suggestion or even a solution, how to get only the second,third… row of a query result with high performance. I know there is the possibility of row_number(SQL Server 2005 or higher) but not for SQL Server 2000 🙁

My first try to get the fifth row was:
SELECT TOP 1 col
FROM (SELECT TOP 5 col
FROM table
ORDER BY col) q
ORDER BY col DESC

I try to explain my requirements: In my table there can be max. 5 rows for one person. But if only 4 rows for this person exists I would get a wrong result with my above query.

Any suggestions?

Any help will be appreciated!

Thx forward, Best Regards Andreas

Answer 1

This should do it…

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_UpdateSkills] AS BEGIN     set nocount on      declare @UserID int     declare @Skill varchar(1)     declare @SkillCount int      declare @Skill1 varchar(1)     declare @Skill2 varchar(1)     declare @Skill3 varchar(1)     declare @Skill4 varchar(1)     declare @Skill5 varchar(1)      declare csrUser cursor for         select distinct UserID         from dbo.tblSkills1         order by 1      open csrUser      fetch next from csrUser into @UserID     while (@@fetch_status = 0)     begin         declare csrSkill cursor for             select Skill             from dbo.tblSkills1             where UserID = @UserID             order by Skill          set @SkillCount = 1         set @Skill1 = null         set @Skill2 = null         set @Skill3 = null         set @Skill4 = null         set @Skill5 = null          open csrSkill          fetch next from csrSkill into @Skill         while (@@fetch_status = 0 and @SkillCount < 6)         begin             print @UserID             print @Skill              if (@SkillCount = 1)                 set @Skill1 = @Skill             else if (@SkillCount = 2)                 set @Skill2 = @Skill             else if (@SkillCount = 3)                 set @Skill3 = @Skill             else if (@SkillCount = 4)                 set @Skill4 = @Skill             else if (@SkillCount = 5)                 set @Skill5 = @Skill              set @SkillCount = @SkillCount + 1              fetch next from csrSkill into @Skill         end          close csrSkill         deallocate csrSkill          insert into tblSkills2         (UserID, Skill1, Skill2, Skill3, Skill4, Skill5)         values         (@UserID, @Skill1, @Skill2, @Skill3, @Skill4, @Skill5)          fetch next from csrUser into @UserID     end      close csrUser     deallocate csrUser END