Gary Chambers wrote:
>
> > I created a package that would easily loop thru and select x number of
> > entries, but not return them in a select to you. This way, you can
> > make 1 simple call passing it X. Is that what you wanted ??? Or do you
> > have to have them as returned values of a select ?
>
> I would need the values returned through select, if I'm correctly
> understanding you (it's a web-based application). I thought of doing
> something like:
>
> SELECT sequence.nextval FROM table WHERE ROWNUM < x
>
> It just seems too kludgy, and I didn't think creating a table with dummy
> data for the count would be a good way to go. Any suggestions?
>
Why 'too kludgy' ? If you are inside a PL/SQL package have you though of
a bulk collect into an array of numbers?
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