Re: Hod do I select the last 100 records of a Table.

In article <376F6B47.5B097F0_at_bsolved.com>, Glen Gray <gleng_at_bsolved.com> writes
>I know it sounds like a simple request but I can't get it to work.
>
>If I do :
>
>select * from table_name where rownum<=100 order by recordid desc

The WHERE clause is effective before the ORDER BY.

That is, you are asking the database to give you any 100 records from your table and then order those by the recordid.

Andy
>
>I get the first 100 records back in reverse order. I haven't been able
>to do a select into #tmp_table either. I need to get this working fairly
>quickly so any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>It's Oracle Server 8.0.3 running on NT Server.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Glen Gray
>

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