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Re: Return equal number of rows with same column value

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On Jun 4, 5:27 pm, Nick <nboutel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For the data...
>
> INSERT INTO test (id,val) VALUES (1,a);
> INSERT INTO test (id,val) VALUES (2,a);
> INSERT INTO test (id,val) VALUES (3,a);
> INSERT INTO test (id,val) VALUES (4,a);
> INSERT INTO test (id,val) VALUES (5,b);
> INSERT INTO test (id,val) VALUES (6,b);
>
> How could I return an even amount of val? For example, I would like to
> return this...
>
> 1 | a
> 2 | a
> 5 | b
> 6 | b
>
> Since the least number of b vals is 2, Id like to limit the a columns
> to return only 2

Found something good. Now if I could only dynamically get that "2"
least val.

SELECT * FROM (
  SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY val ORDER BY val) AS r, t.*
FROM test t
) x
WHERE r <= 2

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