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Re: Select 3 records Thread #
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>>>I'm thinking there may be a problem with using ORDER BY clause in 2 different parts of UNION.
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>>Thank you for pointing to the other thread. The TOP requires to have ORDER BY but maybe I only need it in the second SQL Select of the Union. I will try it.
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>select PK from table inner join (select TOP 50 * from MyTable where PK_VAL > nVar Order by PK_VAL) TopSQL on ... ;
>UNION ALL ;
>select TOP 50 * from MyTable where PK_VAL < nVar Order by PK_VAL DESC
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>Would this idea work too?
I will try and compare with Sergey's approach. Thank you.
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