How can I get first record of a table and last record of a table in one result-set?
This Query fails
SELECT TOP 1 Id,Name FROM Locations ORDER BY Id
UNION ALL
SELECT TOP 1 Id,Name FROM Locations ORDER BY Id DESC
Any help?
How can I get first record of a table and last record of a table in one result-set?
This Query fails
SELECT TOP 1 Id,Name FROM Locations ORDER BY Id
UNION ALL
SELECT TOP 1 Id,Name FROM Locations ORDER BY Id DESC
Any help?
Put your order by
and top
statements into sub-queries:
select first.Id, first.Name
from (
select top 1 *
from Locations
order by Id) first
union all
select last.Id, last.Name
from (
select top 1 *
from Locations
order by Id desc) last
If you're working on SQL Server 2005 or later:
; WITH NumberedRows as (
SELECT Id,Name,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Id) as rnAsc,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Id desc) as rnDesc
FROM
Locations
)
select * from NumberedRows where rnAsc = 1 or rnDesc = 1
The only place this won't be like your original query is if there's only one row in the table (in which case my answer returns one row, whereas yours would return the same row twice)
select * from (
SELECT TOP 1 Id,Name FROM Locations ORDER BY Id) X
UNION ALL
SELECT TOP 1 Id,Name FROM Locations ORDER BY Id DESC
SELECT TOP 1 Id as sameColumn,Name FROM Locations
UNION ALL
SELECT TOP 1 Id as sameColumn,Name FROM Locations ORDER BY sameColumn DESC