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Which of the following ranking functions distribute the rows in an ordered partition into a specified number of groups

Which of the following ranking functions distribute the rows in an ordered partition into a specified number of groups? A. ROW_NUMBER B. RANK C. DENSE_RANK D. NTILE E. None of the Above Ans :- D Explanation:- The NTILE ranking function distributes the rows in an ordered partition into a specified number of groups. The groups are numbered, starting at one. For each row, NTILE returns the number of the group to which the row belongs. The ROW_NUMBER ranking function returns the sequential number of a row within a partition of a result set, starting at 1 for the first row in each partition. The RANK ranking function returns the rank of each row within the partition of a result set. The rank of a row is one plus the number of ranks that come before the row in question. Just like the DENSE_RANK, in the RANK ranking function, if two or more rows tie for a rank, each tied rows receive the same rank. Unlike the DENSE_RANK, the RANK ranking function does not always return con