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What would cause DENSE_RANK not to take care of numerical "ties"?

819570Sep 2 2011 — edited Sep 2 2011
Hi,

We're using Oracle 11.1.

I'm using an Analytic function to rank values in each "partition by" section.

Because there are numerical ties I'm using DENSE_RANK because it's supposed to take care of ties.

It's not.

The clause is simply 
DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY metric ORDER BY AEROBIC_EXERCISE)
It's just data coming from a sub query where you can see what the order should be and it's not. Has anyone ever seen this before?

What am I leaving out?

Thanks.
This post has been answered by JustinCave on Sep 2 2011
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