Question

Let’s say you have a SQL query that is returning n results and you want to return only results from 1 to n-1 without first row (0).

Current query is available at https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/73895

I want to ignore the first row because it contains an incomplete month.

Update: I simplified the quest, I for removing the last record it is easier by using a WHERE clause based on current date.

Answer 1

You changed the question.

;WITH x AS 
(
  SELECT col, 
    fr = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ordering_col)
  FROM dbo.table
)
SELECT col FROM x
WHERE fr > 1;

For the original question (exclude first and last row), this is going to incur two sorts:

;WITH x AS 
(
  SELECT col, 
    fr = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ordering_col),
    lr = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ordering_col DESC)
  FROM dbo.table
)
SELECT col FROM x
WHERE fr <> 1 AND lr <> 1;