sql query distinct with Row Number

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I am fighting with the distinct keyword in sql  I just want to display all row numbers of unique  distinct  values in a column  amp  so I tried   SELECT distinct id  ROW NUMBER   OVER  ORDER BY  id  AS RowNum                              FROM table                              where fid   64   however the below code giving me the distinct values    SELECT distinct id FROM table where fid   64   but when tried it with Row Number  then it is not working

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This article covers an interesting relationship between ROW_NUMBER() and DENSE_RANK() (the RANK() function is not treated specifically). When you need a generated ROW_NUMBER() on a SELECT DISTINCT statement, the ROW_NUMBER() will produce distinct values before they are removed by the DISTINCT keyword. E.g. this query

SELECT DISTINCT
  v, 
  ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY v) row_number
FROM t
ORDER BY v, row_number

... might produce this result (DISTINCT has no effect):

+---+------------+
| V | ROW_NUMBER |
+---+------------+
| a |          1 |
| a |          2 |
| a |          3 |
| b |          4 |
| c |          5 |
| c |          6 |
| d |          7 |
| e |          8 |
+---+------------+

Whereas this query:

SELECT DISTINCT
  v, 
  DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY v) row_number
FROM t
ORDER BY v, row_number

... produces what you probably want in this case:

+---+------------+
| V | ROW_NUMBER |
+---+------------+
| a |          1 |
| b |          2 |
| c |          3 |
| d |          4 |
| e |          5 |
+---+------------+

Note that the ORDER BY clause of the DENSE_RANK() function will need all other columns from the SELECT DISTINCT clause to work properly.

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Using PostgreSQL / Sybase / SQL standard syntax (WINDOW clause):

SELECT
  v,
  ROW_NUMBER() OVER (window) row_number,
  RANK()       OVER (window) rank,
  DENSE_RANK() OVER (window) dense_rank
FROM t
WINDOW window AS (ORDER BY v)
ORDER BY v

... you'll get:

+---+------------+------+------------+
| V | ROW_NUMBER | RANK | DENSE_RANK |
+---+------------+------+------------+
| a |          1 |    1 |          1 |
| a |          2 |    1 |          1 |
| a |          3 |    1 |          1 |
| b |          4 |    4 |          2 |
| c |          5 |    5 |          3 |
| c |          6 |    5 |          3 |
| d |          7 |    7 |          4 |
| e |          8 |    8 |          5 |
+---+------------+------+------------+

User · Answer

Try this  SELECT distinct id FROM   SELECT id  ROW NUMBER   OVER  ORDER BY  id  AS RowNum       FROM table       WHERE fid   64  t   Or use RANK   instead of row number and select records DISTINCT rank  SELECT id FROM   SELECT id  ROW NUMBER   OVER  PARTITION BY  id ORDER BY  id  AS RowNum       FROM table       WHERE fid   64  t WHERE t RowNum 1   This also returns the distinct ids

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Question is too old and my answer might not add much but here are my two cents for making query a little useful   WITH DistinctRecords AS       SELECT  DISTINCT  col1 col2 col3          FROM    tableName      where    my condition      serialize AS      SELECT     ROW NUMBER   OVER  PARTITION BY  colNameAsNeeded  ORDER BY   colNameNeeded   AS Sr       FROM    DistinctRecords    SELECT   FROM serialize   Usefulness of using two cte s lies in the fact that now you can use serialized record much easily in your query and do count    etc very easily  DistinctRecords will select all distinct records and serialize apply serial numbers to distinct records  after wards you can use final serialized result for your purposes without clutter  Partition By might not be needed in most cases

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Try this    WITH CTE AS                  SELECT DISTINCT id FROM table WHERE fid   64                SELECT id  ROW NUMBER   OVER  ORDER BY  id  AS RowNum   FROM cte  WHERE fid   64

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Use this   SELECT    ROW NUMBER   OVER  ORDER BY id  AS RowNum FROM      SELECT DISTINCT id FROM table WHERE fid   64  Base   and put the  output  of a query as the  input  of another    Using CTE     WITH Base AS       SELECT DISTINCT id FROM table WHERE fid   64    SELECT    ROW NUMBER   OVER  ORDER BY id  AS RowNum FROM Base   The two queries should be equivalent   Technically you could  SELECT DISTINCT id  ROW NUMBER   OVER  PARTITION BY id ORDER BY id  AS RowNum      FROM table     WHERE fid   64   but if you increase the number of DISTINCT fields  you have to put all these fields in the PARTITION BY  so for example  SELECT DISTINCT id  description      ROW NUMBER   OVER  PARTITION BY id  description ORDER BY id  AS RowNum      FROM table     WHERE fid   64   I even hope you comprehend that you are going against standard naming conventions here  id should probably be a primary key  so unique by definition  so a DISTINCT would be useless on it  unless you coupled the query with some JOINs UNION ALL

User · Answer

This can be done very simple  you were pretty close already  SELECT distinct id  DENSE RANK   OVER  ORDER BY  id  AS RowNum FROM table WHERE fid   64

User · Answer

How about something like   WITH DistinctVals AS           SELECT  distinct id          FROM    table          where   fid   64       SELECT  id          ROW NUMBER   OVER  ORDER BY  id  AS RowNum FROM    DistinctVals   SQL Fiddle DEMO  You could also try  SELECT distinct id  DENSE RANK   OVER  ORDER BY  id  AS RowNum FROM  mytable where fid   64   SQL Fiddle DEMO

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Using DISTINCT causes issues as you add fields and it can also mask problems in your select   Use GROUP BY as an alternative like this   SELECT id        ROW NUMBER   OVER  ORDER BY  id  AS RowNum   FROM table  where fid   64  group by id   Then you can add other interesting information from your select like this    count    as thecount   or    max description  as description

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