070-461 Real Exam Prep DEMO

Question 8: You need to create a query that meets the following requirements:
* The query must return a list of salespeople ranked by amount of sales and organized by postal
code.
* The salesperson who has the highest amount of sales must be ranked first.
Part of the correct Transact-SQL has been provided in the answer area below. Enter the code in the
answer area that resolves the problem and meets the stated goals or requirements. You can add
code within code that has been provided as well as below it.
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A. 1 SELECT RowNumber() OVER(PARTITION BY PostalCode ORDER BY SalesYTd DESC) AS "Ranking",
2 p.LastName, s.SalesYTD, a.PostalCode
3 FROM Sales.SalesPerson AS a
etc
On line 1 add: RowNumber
One line 1 add: PARTITION BY
ROW_NUMBER() numbers the output of a result set. More specifically, returns the sequential
number of a row within a partition of a result set, starting at 1 for the first row in each partition.
SYNTAX for OVER:
OVER (
[ <PARTITION BY clause> ]
[ <ORDER BY clause> ]
[ <ROW or RANGE clause> ]
)
Example: Using the OVER clause with the ROW_NUMBER function
The following example returns the ROW_NUMBER for sales representatives based on their assigned
sales quota.
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY SUM(SalesAmountQuota) DESC) AS RowNumber,
FirstName, LastName, CONVERT(varchar(13), SUM(SalesAmountQuota),1) AS SalesQuota FROM
dbo.DimEmployee AS e INNER JOIN dbo.FactSalesQuota AS sq ON e.EmployeeKey = sq.EmployeeKey
WHERE e.SalesPersonFlag = 1 GROUP BY LastName, FirstName; Here is a partial result set.
RowNumber FirstName LastName SalesQuota
--------- --------- ------------------ -------------
1 Jillian Carson 12,198,000.00
2 Linda Mitchell 11,786,000.00
3 Michael Blythe 11,162,000.00
4 Jae Pak 10,514,000.00
B. 1 SELECT RowNumber() OVER(PARTITION BY PostalCode ORDER BY SalesYTd DESC) AS "Ranking",
2 p.LastName, s.SalesYTD, a.PostalCode
3 FROM Sales.SalesPerson AS a
etc
More specifically, returns the sequential number of a row within a partition of a result set, starting at
1 for the first row in each partition.
SYNTAX for OVER:
OVER (
[ <PARTITION BY clause> ]
[ <ORDER BY clause> ]
[ <ROW or RANGE clause> ]
)
Example: Using the OVER clause with the ROW_NUMBER function
The following example returns the ROW_NUMBER for sales representatives based on their assigned
sales quota.
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY SUM(SalesAmountQuota) DESC) AS RowNumber,
FirstName, LastName, CONVERT(varchar(13), SUM(SalesAmountQuota),1) AS SalesQuota FROM
dbo.DimEmployee AS e INNER JOIN dbo.FactSalesQuota AS sq ON e.EmployeeKey = sq.EmployeeKey
WHERE e.SalesPersonFlag = 1 GROUP BY LastName, FirstName; Here is a partial result set.
RowNumber FirstName LastName SalesQuota
--------- --------- ------------------ -------------
1 Jillian Carson 12,198,000.00
2 Linda Mitchell 11,786,000.00
3 Michael Blythe 11,162,000.00
4 Jae Pak 10,514,000.00
Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/row-number-transact-sql
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/select-over-clause-transact-sql