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Select N th Maximum - SQL Server 2005

To Select Nth Maximum Value using TOP key word, You can try the following Stored Procedure.
CREATE PROCEDURE SP_SelectTopN
(@N INT)
/****************************************/
/* Created By : Loganathan V */
/* Created On: 21-Sep-2010, Tuesday */
/* Purpose : To Get the N th Top Value from*/
/*                Recordset. */
/* How to : EXEC SP_SelectTopN */
/*             : EXEC SP_SelectTopN 4 */
/****************************************/
AS
BEGIN
        DECLARE @P INT
        SELECT @P=@N
        SELECT TOP 1 * FROM
        (SELECT TOP (@P) * FROM SALARYTABLE ORDER BY SALARY DESC)  AS TOPNRECORDS ORDER BY SALARY ASC
END

To Run the Stored Procedure follow this:
 
EXEC SP_SelectTopN 4
 
To Select Nth Maximum Value without the use of TOP key word, You can try the following Stored Procedure.
CREATE PROCEDURE USP_SELECT_TOP_NTH
(@N INT = NULL)
AS
/****************************************/
/* Created By : Loganathan V */
/* Created On: 21-Sep-2010, Tuesday */
/* Purpose : Find N th Maximum */
/* How to : EXEC USP_SELECT_TOP_NTH */
/* : EXEC USP_SELECT_TOP_NTH 4 */
/****************************************/
BEGIN
   IF @N IS NULL
     BEGIN
        SELECT * FROM SALARYTABLE S1 WHERE (1-1)=
        (
        SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(S2.SALARY)) FROM SALARYTABLE S2
       WHERE S2.SALARY>S1.SALARY)
     END
   ELSE
     BEGIN
         SELECT * FROM SALARYTABLE S1 WHERE (@N-1)=
         (
         SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(S2.SALARY)) FROM SALARYTABLE S2
         WHERE S2.SALARY>S1.SALARY)
      END
END

To Run the Stored Procedure follow this:
EXEC USP_SELECT_TOP_NTH 3
 
Sometimes we need to pull out the top most records in percentage. In that situations we can use the PERCENT key word to pull out the records.
SELECT TOP 50 PERCENT * FROM SALARYTABLE
 
The Percentage Value must be between 0 and 100. The number of records returned by PERCENT will be the actual number of records by percentage.
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Happy Querying....................
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