I thought this was only available in 8i, not 8....
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<aquabubble_at_Remove.No.Parma.Ham.Remove.geocities.com> wrote in message
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> Billy Collins <billy_collins_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:7vdhmg$mr4$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way for me to retrieve only the first 20 rows from oracle
> > AFTER doing an ORDER BY?
> >
> > The rownum is executed while the SELECT is executing, as discussed in a
> > recent thread, and this gets distorted after sorting is done. I wish to
> > retrieve only the first 20 records after this sorting..
> >
> > SELECT FIRST 20 <column_name> FROM <tablename> ORDER BY <column_name>
>
> If you don't want to use PL/SQL then you could do something like this:
>
> SELECT *
> FROM (SELECT <columns>
> FROM <tablename>
> ORDER BY <column>)
> WHERE rownum < 21
>
> This would do your job. HTH
>
>
Received on Sun Oct 31 1999 - 09:21:50 CST
