view to select specific period or latest when null

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Published on 2010-04-12T08:34:23Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 9:43 UTC
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Hi

I have a product table which simplifies to this:

create table product(id int primary key identity, productid int, year int, quarter int, price money)

and some sample data:

insert into product select 11, 2010, 1, 1.11
insert into product select 11, 2010, 2, 2.11
insert into product select 11, 2010, 3, 3.11
insert into product select 12, 2010, 1, 1.12
insert into product select 12, 2010, 2, 2.12
insert into product select 13, 2010, 1, 1.13

Prices are can be changed each quarter, but not all products get a new price each quarter. Now I could duplicate the data each quarter, keeping the price the same, but I'd rather use a view.

How can I create a view that can be used to return prices for (for example) quarter 2? I've written this to return the current (=latest) price:

CREATE VIEW vwCurrentPrices AS
    SELECT *
    FROM
    (
      SELECT  *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY productid  ORDER BY year DESC, quarter DESC) AS Ranking        
      FROM product
    ) p
    WHERE p.Ranking = 1

I'd like to create a view so I can use queries like select * from vwProduct where quarter = 2

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