How to do an inner join on row number in sql server

Question

SQL Server 2008

Two tables:

Table A has following data:

RowA
RowB
RowC
RowD

Table B has following data:

Row         


        

Answer 1

try this:

USE ROW_NUMBER() function in sql server 2008

select A.val,B.val 
from(
    SELECT val,row_number() over (order by val) as row_num
    FROM A)A
join
    (SELECT val,row_number() over (order by val) as row_num
    FROM B)B
on  A.row_num=B.row_num
ORDER BY A.val,B.val

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