>Here is a puzzle. I have a table that contains annual records for businesses. There may or may not be a record for a given business in any given year. So for BusinessA there may be records for 2000, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, etc. I want to SELECT the most recent 3 records. That is easy enough.

SELECT TOP 3 * FROM [HistoricalSummary] WHERE business=@business ORDER BY [year] desc

But now here's the problem. I want the order of these records to be sorted by year lowest to highest. So this is the opposite of what is needed to get the 3 latest records. Has anyone dealt with anything like this before?
>Thanks

What will you do if the year is missing, for some reason. Say, you only have data for 2013, 2012 and 2010 missing 2011. Does it matter?