Question

I’m using this statement in SQLServer and it works fine:

SELECT TOP 1000 *      
FROM [SomeTable]

It gives me the TOP 1000 records from SomeTable, now which keyword should I use instead of Top if I need the Bottom 1000 records from the table?

Answer 1

To get the bottom 1000 you will want to order it by a column in descending order, and still take the top 1000.

SELECT TOP 1000 *
FROM [SomeTable]
ORDER BY MySortColumn DESC

If you care for it to be in the same order as before you can use a common table expression for that:

;WITH CTE AS (
    SELECT TOP 1000 *
    FROM [SomeTable]
    ORDER BY MySortColumn DESC
)

SELECT * 
FROM CTE
ORDER BY MySortColumn