Question

This has me stumped. This is quite a simplified version but let’s say I have a league table of users in SQL Server such as:

UserId Total  
1       10  
2        5  
3       20  
4        3  
5       40  
6       15  
7       22  
8        1  
9       18  
10      33

Now I can easily order this to be by total like so:

Position  UserId  Total  
1            5      40  
2           10      33  
3            7      22   
4            3      20   
5            9      18   
6            6      15  
7            1      10  
8            2       5  
9            4       3   
10           8       1  

But I would also like to display a particular users position in the table and the two above and below like so for user 1 who is seventh:

Position UserId  Total  
5           9      18   
6           6      15  
7           1      10  
8           2       5  
9           4       3  

I hope this makes sense and any help/insight would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You could try:

SELECT * FROM
  (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Total DESC) AS Position, 
          UserId, 
          Total
   FROM your_table) p
WHERE p.Position BETWEEN desiredId-2 AND desiredId+2