按照分组查询之后取出前N条数据

问题：最近有这样的一个业务，就是根据库存中的商品按照类别进行分组之后，然后获取每组类别的前2条数据，下面就是此业务的实现sql

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☛建表语句

CREATE TABLE `mygoods` (  
  `goods_id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,  
  `cat_id` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',  
  `price` tinyint(3) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',  
  `status` tinyint(3) DEFAULT '1',  
  PRIMARY KEY (`goods_id`),  
  KEY `icatid` (`cat_id`)  
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;  
  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (1, 101, 90, 0);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (2, 101, 99, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (3, 102, 98, 0);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (4, 103, 96, 0);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (5, 102, 95, 0);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (6, 102, 94, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (7, 102, 93, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (8, 103, 99, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (9, 103, 98, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (10, 103, 97, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (11, 104, 96, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (12, 104, 95, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (13, 104, 94, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (15, 101, 92, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (16, 101, 93, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (17, 101, 94, 0);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (18, 102, 99, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (19, 105, 85, 1);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (20, 105, 89, 0);  
INSERT INTO `mygoods` VALUES (21, 105, 99, 1);  

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截图如下

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实现的sql

//使用自查询
SELECT a.* FROM mygoods a WHERE 
(SELECT count(*) FROM mygoods WHERE cat_id=a.cat_id AND price>a.price) < 2
order by a.cat_id,a.price DESC

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返回的结果如下截图