Re: Oracle Newbie : Getting only limited number of rows

It's fri, what can I say.

rownum is done befor sort.

Peter Chang wrote:

> Because sort order is done befor rownum.
>
> For top 10 recored
>
> select a.ord_col, a.other_stuff
> from table_name a
> where 10 > (select count(*) from table_name b where b.ord_col<a.ord_col)
> order by a.ord_col
>
> avaneesh.arora wrote:
>
> > HI,
> >
> > I have the following problem :
> >
> > I want to select a limited number of rows from a table sorted on a
> > particular set of columns. How do I structure my query to get, say Next N
> > rows(50/100) based on the specified sort order. Limiting it by ROWNUM limits
> > the row count and does not work as desired.
> >
> > Please help.
> > Thanks,
> > Avaneesh
Received on Fri Jun 12 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT