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Limiting results from a select statement [message #374446]

Tue, 12 June 2001 12:26

Jonathan Nordell
Messages: 2
Registered: June 2001

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Is it possible to limit the number of rows returned by a select statement in oracle. It doesn't look like oracle supports the limit statement, and I haven't been able to find any other way to handle this.

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Re: Limiting results from a select statement [message #374449 is a reply to message #374446]

Wed, 13 June 2001 05:20

John R
Messages: 156
Registered: March 2000

Senior Member

You can limit the number of rows returned by a query by adding the restriction
'AND rownum <= n'
to your query where n is the number of rows you want to see.
Note that this restriction is applied before any Order by statements.

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order by and rownum [message #374454 is a reply to message #374446]

Wed, 13 June 2001 06:57

Hans
Messages: 42
Registered: September 2000

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In Oracle 8i you can limit the query

select * from emp
order by sal desc;

with

select * from (
   select * from emp
   order by sal desc
)
where rownum <= 5;

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