something appears to be funny with ROWNUM

From: MaryAnn Atkinson <maryann_30_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 18:20:54 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.005C3EBE.20030708181424@fatcity.com>

this first query gave me 600 lines of output.

SELECT Rownum, Gender
FROM EMP2
WHERE ROWNUM <= 600;

2. this one right here told me no rows selected...

SELECT Rownum, Gender
FROM EMP2
WHERE ROWNUM BETWEEN 500 and 600;

I dont get it... something is funny with ROWNUM...

Any ideas?
thx
maa

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