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Re: Receiving Query result...

From: joachim Carlsson <IKEA-joachim.carlsson_at_neurope.ikea.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:24:46 +0200
Message-ID: <6i43va$5ho$1@mailgate.ikea.com>


To get to the last ten rows you will have to do a full tablescan if you don't have a search criteria.

I don't really understand what you are trying to achieve here? Hans Duijn wrote in message <6i1iui$erc_at_news3.euro.net>...
>Hi,
>
>To all the SQL gurus. Is there a way to receive the last ten rows from a
>selection (based upon a cursor). I know I can use ROWNUM for that purpose
>but when I want the result to be sorted I have to create a VIEW and use
>GROUP BY. As I said, this works but is rather slow an lot of work around.
>
>Anyone an idea?
>
>Thanks
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 28 1998 - 03:24:46 CDT

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