SQL query to select distinct row with minimum value

This is another way of doing the same thing, which would allow you to do interesting things like select the top 5 winning games, etc.

 SELECT *
 FROM
 (
     SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ID ORDER BY Point) as RowNum, *
     FROM Table
 ) X 
 WHERE RowNum = 1

You can now correctly get the actual row that was identified as the one with the lowest score and you can modify the ordering function to use multiple criteria, such as "Show me the earliest game which had the smallest score", etc.


Use:

SELECT tbl.*
FROM TableName tbl
  INNER JOIN
  (
    SELECT Id, MIN(Point) MinPoint
    FROM TableName
    GROUP BY Id
  ) tbl1
  ON tbl1.id = tbl.id
WHERE tbl1.MinPoint = tbl.Point

This will work

select * from table 
where (id,point) IN (select id,min(point) from table group by id);