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Glad this is working for you. Using TOP probably was a bad idea and I think the way you used RANK <=1000 is a better approach.

If there was a way to safely exclude any of the records - like if you knew that when published was older than X days/months/years it would never make it into the final results, you could filter them out before ranking them. That might squeeze a little more performance out of the query, but could be risky if the data isn’t predictable enough.

I think you can use RANK as a window function and specify TOP 1000