Limit column value repeats to top 2 - sql

Question

So I have this query:
SELECT
Search.USER_ID,
Search.SEARCH_TERM,
COUNT(*) AS Search.count
FROM Search
GROUP BY 1,2
ORDER BY 3 DESC
Which returns a response that looks like this:
USER_ID SEARCH_TERM count
bob dog 50
bob cat 45
sally cat 38
john mouse 30
sally turtle 10
sally lion 5
john zebra 3
john leopard 1
And my question is: How would I change the query, so that it only returns the top 2 most-searched-for-terms for any given user? So in the example above, the last row for Sally would be dropped, and the last row for John would also be dropped, leaving a total of 6 rows; 2 for each user, like so:
USER_ID SEARCH_TERM count
bob dog 50
bob cat 45
sally cat 38
john mouse 30
sally turtle 10
john zebra 3

Answer 1

In SQL Server, you can put the original query into a CTE, add the ROW_NUMBER() function. Then in the new main query, just add a WHERE clause to limit by the row number. Your query would look something like this:
;WITH OriginalQuery AS
(
SELECT
s.[User_id]
,s.Search_Term
,COUNT(*) AS 'count'
,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY s.[USER_ID] ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC) AS rn
FROM Search s
GROUP BY s.[User_id], s.Search_Term
)
SELECT oq.User_id
,oq.Search_Term
,oq.count
FROM OriginalQuery oq
WHERE rn <= 2
ORDER BY oq.count DESC
EDIT: I specified SQL Server as the dbms I used here, but the above should be ANSI-compliant and work in Snowflake.