SQL Server/T-SQL Tutorial/View/Query view

Query a view with where and order by

2> CREATE TABLE titles(
3>    title_id       varchar(20),
4>    title          varchar(80)       NOT NULL,
5>    type           char(12)          NOT NULL,
6>    pub_id         char(4)               NULL,
7>    price          money                 NULL,
8>    advance        money                 NULL,
9>    royalty        int                   NULL,
10>    ytd_sales      int                   NULL,
11>    notes          varchar(200)          NULL,
12>    pubdate        datetime          NOT NULL
13> )
14> GO
1>
2> insert titles values ("1", "Secrets",   "popular_comp", "1389", $20.00, $8000.00, 10, 4095,"Note 1","06/12/94")
3> insert titles values ("2", "The",       "business",     "1389", $19.99, $5000.00, 10, 4095,"Note 2","06/12/91")
4> insert titles values ("3", "Emotional", "psychology",   "0736", $7.99,  $4000.00, 10, 3336,"Note 3","06/12/91")
5> insert titles values ("4", "Prolonged", "psychology",   "0736", $19.99, $2000.00, 10, 4072,"Note 4","06/12/91")
6> insert titles values ("5", "With",      "business",     "1389", $11.95, $5000.00, 10, 3876,"Note 5","06/09/91")
7> insert titles values ("6", "Valley",    "mod_cook",     "0877", $19.99, $0.00,    12, 2032,"Note 6","06/09/91")
8> insert titles values ("7", "Any?",      "trad_cook",    "0877", $14.99, $8000.00, 10, 4095,"Note 7","06/12/91")
9> insert titles values ("8", "Fifty",     "trad_cook",    "0877", $11.95, $4000.00, 14, 1509,"Note 8","06/12/91")
10> GO
1>
2>
3> CREATE VIEW ranked_sales (rank, title_id, ytd_sales, title)
4> AS
5> SELECT
6> (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT T2.ytd_sales) FROM titles AS T2
7>     WHERE T2.ytd_sales >= T1.ytd_sales ) AS rank,
8> title_id,
9> ytd_sales,
10> title
11> FROM titles AS T1 WHERE ytd_sales IS NOT NULL
12> GO
1>
2> SELECT * FROM ranked_sales WHERE rank <= 10 ORDER BY rank
3> GO
rank        title_id             ytd_sales   title
----------- -------------------- ----------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          1 1                           4095 Secrets
          1 2                           4095 The
          1 7                           4095 Any?
          2 4                           4072 Prolonged
          3 5                           3876 With
          4 3                           3336 Emotional
          5 6                           2032 Valley
          6 8                           1509 Fifty
1>
2> drop VIEW ranked_sales;
3> GO
1>
2>
3> drop table titles;
4> GO