On Tuesday, January 16, 2024, Maiquel Grassi <
grassi@hotmail.com.br> wrote:
Hello David, how are you?
Firstly, I apologize if I wasn't clear in what I intended to propose. I used a very specific example here, and it wasn't very clear what I really wanted to bring up for discussion.
I understand that it's possible to order the "returned dataset" using "order by ... desc."
It is, but it is also possible to order a window frame/partition by specifying order by in the over clause. Which is what I showed, and what you should try to use. That orders the enumeration, you can still order, or not, the output dataset.
I don't have a base column to use for "order by," and I also can't use CTID column.
Then you really don’t have an ordering in the data itself. This is unusual and not really worth adding a new function to deal with.
How can I do this without using my reversed enumeration "row_number desc" function?
Count() over() - row_number() over()
Please don’t top-post replies, in-line and trim like I’m doing.
David J.
P.s. if you really don’t care about logical order you probably should just let your front-end deal with it.
