RANK()

Ranks rows with gaps after ties.

Source data — Pattern 10: Window Functions

All queries run against the shared employees table (see schema.sql). This pattern introduces a sales table to demonstrate window functions including ranking, navigation, running totals, moving averages and window aggregates.

RANK() — source table 1

RANK() — source table 2

What it does

Ranks rows with gaps after ties.

Problem

Rank employees by sales.

SELECT *,
RANK() OVER(ORDER BY sales_amount DESC) AS result
FROM sales;

Result

RANK() — result 1