Re: How to Retrieve particular rows ?.

What error are you getting?

I habe Oracle 8.1.5, and it's working fine.

"Raj" <rajarulmani_at_att.com> wrote in message news:38EB33E8.5CD00C5C_at_att.com...
> Paul,
> Thanks for your response ,
> I tried the query and it's giving an eror with "order by" clause in
8.0.5 .
>
>
> Paul Druker wrote:
>
> > Try:
> >
> > select coll , rownum from (
> > select * from table1 where
> > col1 <= 'some value1 ' and
> > col2 = 'some value2'
> > order by col1 desc)
> > where rownum <= 10
> >
> > Regards,
> > Paul
> >
> > "Raj" <rajarulmani_at_att.com> wrote in message
> > news:38EA6880.BAC94B8B_at_att.com...
> > > Can any one help me ?.
> > >
> > > I have problem with the following query :
> > >
> > > select coll , rownum from table1 where
> > > col1 <= 'some value1 ' and
> > > col2 = 'some value2' and
> > > rownum <= 10
> > > order by col1 desc.
> > >
> > >
> > > Both col1 and col2 are the primary keys of table table1, and there is
> > > also and index on both the columns.
> > >
> > > The query returns first 10 rows always ( irrespective of the " col1
<=
> > > 'some value1 ' " ) , which is not i expected. I need 10 rows starting
> > > from 'some value1' in desc order and rownum from 1 to 10.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Raj.
> > >
> > >
>
Received on Wed Apr 05 2000 - 08:43:53 CDT