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RANK

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

RANK assigns a series of rankings, which are different from ROW_NUMBER in that they:

  • Assign the same rank to tied rows
  • Skip ranks after tied rows

This works similarly as ranks in a sports event, when two athletes are ranked first, the next one is ranked third.

SELECT
  LANGUAGE_ID,
  rank() OVER (ORDER BY LANGUAGE_ID)
FROM
  BOOK;
create.select(
         BOOK.LANGUAGE_ID,
         rank().over(orderBy(BOOK.LANGUAGE_ID)))
     .from(BOOK)
     .fetch();

Producing:

+-------------+------+
| language_id | rank |
+-------------+------+
|           1 |    1 |
|           1 |    1 | <-- Tied rows are both ranked first
|           2 |    3 | <-- The next rank is 3 as 2 is skipped
|           4 |    4 |
+-------------+------+
See this article for a comparison between ROW_NUMBER, RANK, and DENSE_RANK

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

rank().over(orderBy(BOOK.ID))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, DB2, DUCKDB, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, INFORMIX, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, 
-- ORACLE, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, TERADATA, TRINO, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
rank() OVER (ORDER BY BOOK.ID)

-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, DERBY, HSQLDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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