Sometimes there would be a requirement to add serial number (or) row number to the result set. Example: The requirement would be to select some columns from the database tables along with Serial Number like below SNo Customer_Name Customer_Phone_Number 1 aaa xxx-xxx-xxxx 2 bbb xxx-xxx-xxxx So, in this post we will see how we can select that using T-SQL on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 We can achieve this in several ways: 1) Using Row_Number () Row_Number() Returns the sequential number of a row within a partition of a result set, starting at 1 for the first row in each partition. T-SQL Script: SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY CUSTOMER_ID) AS [S.No] ,CUSTOMER_NAME ,CUSTOMER_PHONE_NUMBER FROM database.dbo.tblTableName 2) Using Identity (Property) Identity() property creates an identity column in the table. So, first we need to cre
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