Jill <jc_va_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> -=< a q u a b u b b l e >=-
> <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
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> > > 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
>
> I thought this was only available in 8i, not 8....
>
I don't see why it wouldn't work in earlier versions than that.
Received on Sun Oct 31 1999 - 14:21:46 CST
