A table named Profits stores the total profit made each year within a territory. The Profits
table has columns named Territory, Year, and Profit. You need to create a report that
displays the profits made by each territory for each year and its preceding year. Which
Transact-SQL query should you use?
A.
SELECT Territory, Year, Profit,
LAG(Profit, 1, 0) OVER(PARTITION BY Year ORDER BY Territory) AS NextProfit
FROM Profits
B.
SELECT Territory, Year, Profit,
LAG(Profit, 1, 0) OVER(PARTITION BY Territory ORDER BY Year) AS NextProfit
FROM Profits
C.
SELECT Territory, Year, Profit,
LEAD(Profit, 1, 0) OVER(PARTITION BY Territory ORDER BY Year) AS NextProfit
FROM Profits
D.
SELECT Territory, Year, Profit,
LEAD(Profit, 1, 0) OVER(PARTITION BY Year ORDER BY Territory) AS NextProfit
FROM Profits
Explanation:
Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh231256.aspx
Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213125.aspx
preceding year means the year before the accounting year , so that using LAG is suitable. but labeling returned column AS NextProfit is confusing !!
NextProfit -> So Lead no? answer C
ok B,