Comments on: SQL Server 2000 script

By: kccrosser

kccrosser — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:31:16 +0000

Sorry – you call it as:

select dbo.NthFromLastPrice(, 2)
(or use your appropriate database object name)

Brain freeze while typing.

By: kccrosser

kccrosser — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:23:01 +0000

Did you try using the function I provided? (NthFromLastPrice)

You will need to change the table and column names to match your database, but I have tested it and it will return the correct price. Simply call it with the item number (or other index to the item collection) and “2″ for the 2nd parameter.

Once it compiles (with the right table and column names), you can easily test it with:

select * from NthFromLastPrice(, 2)

By: brentsheets

brentsheets — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:28:53 +0000

Moved by Moderator for Beginer2008: Let make clear my question.. I got an Item and update new price in every new quarter. Usually we'll call Max(Effect_date) to retrieve latest price. But now we'd like to call last updated price (last before latest price) instead latest price. I've tried as per yours advice yet error prompt.

By: mrdenny

mrdenny — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:07:11 +0000

Neither of those ROWNUMBER examples will work. SQL Server 2000 doesn't have that function, it's new in SQL Server 2005. This code will do the trick for you.

SELECT TOP (1) *
FROM (
               SELECT TOP (2) *
               FROM YourTable
               ORDER BY DateEntered
) a
ORDER BY DateEntered DESC