Can anyone help me to group student scores into quintile? I think there is a feature in SQL Server 2012, but still we havent upgraded to it as we are using 2008R2. I tried
Below is the correct answer given by Erland Sommarskog
Create Table #Scores(Student varchar(20), Score int);
Insert #Scores(Student, Score) Values
('Student1', 20)
,('Student2', 20)
,('Student3', 30)
,('Student4', 30)
,('Student4', 30)
,('Student4', 30)
,('Student5', 40)
,('Student6', 40)
,('Student7', 50)
,('Student8', 50)
,('Student9', 60)
,('Student10', 70)
,('Student11', 70)
,('Student12', 80)
,('Student13', 80)
,('Student14', 90);
; WITH quintiles AS (
SELECT Score, ntile(5) OVER(ORDER BY Score) AS quintile
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT Score FROM #Scores) AS s
)
SELECT s.Student, s.Score, q.quintile
FROM #Scores s
JOIN quintiles q ON s.Score = q.Score
go
DROP TABLE #Scores
--by Erland Sommarskog``