replace NULL values with latest non-NULL value in resultset series (SQL Server 2008 R2)

Question

for SQL Server 2008 R2

I have a resultset that looks like this (note [price] is numeric, NULL below represents a NULL value, the result set is ordered by product_i

Answer 1

You can try the following:

* Updated **

-- Test Data
DECLARE @YourTable TABLE(Product INT, Timestamp DATETIME, Price NUMERIC(16,4))

INSERT INTO @YourTable
SELECT 5678, '20080101 12:00:00', 12.34
UNION ALL
SELECT 5678, '20080101 12:01:00', NULL
UNION ALL
SELECT 5678, '20080101 12:02:00', NULL
UNION ALL
SELECT 5678, '20080101 12:03:00', 23.45
UNION ALL
SELECT 5678, '20080101 12:04:00', NULL

;WITH CTE AS
(
    SELECT *
    FROM @YourTable
)

-- Query
SELECT A.Product, A.Timestamp, ISNULL(A.Price,B.Price) Price
FROM CTE A
OUTER APPLY (   SELECT TOP 1 *
                FROM CTE 
                WHERE Product = A.Product AND Timestamp < A.Timestamp
                AND Price IS NOT NULL
                ORDER BY Product, Timestamp DESC) B

--Results
Product Timestamp   Price
5678    2008-01-01 12:00:00.000 12.3400
5678    2008-01-01 12:01:00.000 12.3400
5678    2008-01-01 12:02:00.000 12.3400
5678    2008-01-01 12:03:00.000 23.4500
5678    2008-01-01 12:04:00.000 23.4500