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Answering Top-N Questions

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It is probably extremely few developers that haven’t been asked to create a Top-N report. The questions by the business that can be classified as a Top-N question are legion. Which of our products sell the most? Which user profiles create the most tweets? And so on. Top-N reports come in three flavors all demonstrated in this chapter: top rows, Olympic rule, and top values.

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Berg Hansen, K. (2020). Answering Top-N Questions. In: Practical Oracle SQL. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5617-6_12

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