Re: Top 3 values for each group in PGSQL - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From hubert depesz lubaczewski
Subject Re: Top 3 values for each group in PGSQL
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Msg-id 20190301115911.7hbvcw3pkhwz5wg5@depesz.com
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In response to Top 3 values for each group in PGSQL  ("Ila B." <ilaria.battiston@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 11:51:24AM +0100, Ila B. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I’m working on a health database and I’m trying to extract the most popular prescription codes from a custom table I
structuredlike this:
 
> 
> Year - Code - Count(code)
> 
> I want to extract the 3 codes with maximum count for each year. I know I should be using rank() but I don’t really
understandhow this works.
 
> I am using pgAdmin4 version 3.5 with PostgreSQL 10.6 on Windows 10 Pro and no permission to update.

Consider reading
https://www.depesz.com/2012/10/05/getting-top-n-rows-per-group/

Best regards,

depesz



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