SQL Server - Query to use Distinct Keyword with Top Statement in SQL Server

Introduction:

In this article I will explain how to write SQL query to use distinct keyword with Top statement in SQL Server.

Description:

In previous posts I explained Replace function, substring function to get particular part of string and many articles relating to SQL Server. Now I will explain how to use distinct keyword with top statement in sql server.

Generally by using Distinct keyword we can get distinct records from datatable that declaration will be like this

SELECT DISTINCT EmpId,EmpName,Roles FROM EmployeeDetails

Here in above query distinct will apply for all the mentioned columns it will return distinct column values of EmpId, EmpName and Roles. In this way we can get distinct records from datatable by using DISTINCT keyword. In one situation I got requirement like use Distinct keyword with Top statement in SQL Server for that I written query like this

SELECT DISTINCT TOP 10 * FROM EmployeeDetails

And we can declare distinct keyword with column values as show below.

SELECT DISTINCT TOP 10 EmpId,EmpName,Roles FROM EmployeeDetails

Note: DISTINCT keyword always operates on all columns in the final result

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