Sql-server – How to update ID=null values in table to incremental counter values

One solution is for the client application to remember the maximum rowversion per ID. The user-defined table type would change to:

CREATE TYPE
    dbo.guid_list_tbltype
AS TABLE 
    (
    Id      uniqueidentifier PRIMARY KEY, 
    LastRV  rowversion NOT NULL
    );

The query in the procedure can then be rewritten to use the APPLY pattern (see my SQLServerCentral articles part 1 and part 2 - free login required). The key to good performance here is the ORDER BY - it avoids unordered pre-fetching on the nested loops join. The RECOMPILE is necessary to allow the optimizer to see the cardinality of the table variable at compilation time (probably resulting in a desirable parallel plan).

ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.GetData

    @IDs        guid_list_tbltype READONLY,
    @MaxRows    bigint

AS
BEGIN

    SELECT TOP (@MaxRows)
        d.Id,
        d.[Date],
        d.Value,
        d.RV
    FROM @Ids AS i
    CROSS APPLY
    (
        SELECT
            d.*
        FROM dbo.Data AS d
        WHERE
            d.Id = i.Id
            AND d.RV > i.LastRV
    ) AS d
    ORDER BY
        i.Id,
        d.RV
    OPTION (RECOMPILE);

END;

You should get a post-execution query plan like this (estimated plan will be serial):

A general policy is to let the reporting layer handle things like only printing ParentIncome once. However, since you are delivering a spreadsheet that will be used by others in who knows what manner, then I suppose you are stuck.

Because of the knowledge required you will need to develop some extra information (MIN, MAX, first, last, etc.) that is not known by a single row. There are dodges different from ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION...), but there will still be an extra step.

See the following:

CREATE TABLE #parent
(ParentNum INT,
 ParentName VARCHAR(20),
 ParentIncome INT);

CREATE TABLE #child
(ChildNum INT,
 ChildParentNum INT,
 ChildName VARCHAR(20),
 ChildAllowance INT);

INSERT INTO #parent VALUES(10,'John',50000);
INSERT INTO #parent VALUES(20,'Jane',55000);
INSERT INTO #parent VALUES(30,'Jackie',90000);

INSERT INTO #child VALUES(1,10,'Johnny',5)
INSERT INTO #child VALUES(2,20,'Jackie',10)
INSERT INTO #child VALUES(3,20,'Billy',5)
INSERT INTO #child VALUES(4,20,'Sally',5)
INSERT INTO #child VALUES(5,30,'Monique',0)

-- Basic approach you may be using

See this example SQL Fiddle #1

SELECT pc.ParentName, pc.ParentNum,
    CASE WHEN pc.RowNum = 1 THEN CAST(pc.ParentIncome AS VARCHAR(10)) ELSE '' END as ParentIncome,
    pc.ChildName, pc.ChildNum, pc.ChildAllowance
FROM (SELECT p.ParentNum, p.ParentName, p.ParentIncome, 
         c.ChildNum, c.ChildParentNum, c.ChildName, c.ChildAllowance,
         ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ParentNum ORDER BY ParentNum) AS RowNum
       FROM #parent p JOIN #child c ON p.ParentNum = c.ChildParentNum) AS pc
ORDER BY pc.ParentNum, pc.ChildNum 

    -- An alternative, but still using a subselect for one element

See this example: SQL Fiddle #2

SELECT  p.ParentName, p.ParentNum, 
        CASE WHEN c.ChildNum = mc.MinChild THEN CAST (ParentIncome AS VARCHAR(10)) ELSE '' END AS ParentIncome,
        c.ChildName, c.ChildNum, c.ChildAllowance
       FROM #parent p 
          JOIN #child as c 
             ON p.ParentNum = c.ChildParentNum
          -- This subselect gives the MIN (or First) ChildNum per Parent
          JOIN (SELECT ChildParentNum, MIN(ChildNum) AS MinChild
                  FROM #child
                  GROUP BY ChildParentNum) AS mc 
             ON mc.ChildParentNum = c.ChildParentNum 
ORDER BY p.ParentNum, c.ChildNum 

drop table #parent
drop table #child

Notice that I cast the ParentIncome as a VARCHAR(10) so that the datatype would be of the same type as the empty income of ''. I originally used a NULL instead of a blank, but that might give you EXCEL problems.

Is it worth doing things this way? It is up to you, but it primarily depends on what you like best. The ROW_NUMBER() is a more powerful operator than MIN() and gives you more options, but in this case it appears that a MIN() will work for you.