Use of 'Top' Clause:
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Many a times we are faced with situation wherein we want the say top 2 or top 5 of values in ascending or descending format from a table. An example of it is requirement from sales department wherein the top 2 sales invoices in the month or a particular time period
is needed. Here I am illustrating a simple example for same. It retrieves the bills having top 2 sales value.
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-- Table creation
create table salemaster(DesptachNo varchar (25),FinalAmount float)
--Values inserted
insert into salemaster values ('0001',125)
insert into salemaster values ('0002',205)
insert into salemaster values ('0003',250)
insert into salemaster values ('0004',375)
insert into salemaster values ('0005',495)
insert into salemaster values ('0006',460)
insert into salemaster values ('0007',385)
insert into salemaster values ('0008',345)
insert into salemaster values ('0009',399)
insert into salemaster values ('0010',429)
--Expected Result
select top (2) DesptachNo, Finalamount from salemaster order by Finalamount desc
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