From Kevin.Thomas@calanais.com Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:23:02 -0700 From: "Thomas, Kevin" Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:23:02 -0700 Subject: RE: query for top customer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Good grief! Here's me publishing war-n-peace to solve a problem that takes 4 lines of code...that's the last time I go out both nights at the weekend!! ;) Please ignore my overly-engineered email when it finally arrives... -----Original Message----- Sent: 10 September 2001 16:10 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, Try this query: select customer,sales from tablea x where 3 > (select count(*) from tablea y where y.sales > x.sales) order by x.sales desc; Bill Carle AT&T Database Administrator 816-995-3922 wcarle@att.com -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 8:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: query for top customer how to write a query to find top 3 customer based on their sales . eg. TABLE A customer sales A100 100 A101 200 A102 105 A103 109 A104 108 RESULTS should be.. A101 200 A103 109 A104 108 Thanks in advance Brajesh -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Oracle DBA INET: oradba@tubes.tatasteel.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Carle, William T (Bill), NLCIO INET: wcarle@att.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Thomas, Kevin INET: Kevin.Thomas@calanais.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).