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Re: Help needed: Oracle ans SQL

From: Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: 17 Oct 2001 10:44:01 -0700
Message-ID: <9qkg1101h7p@drn.newsguy.com>


In article <3BCD9A56.15204474_at_itprotect.de>, Mirko says...
>
>Thomas Kyte wrote:
>
>
>> sigh, never any versions. oh well.
>
> Sorry, forgot that. We're using 8.0.5 around here.
>
>
>> scott_at_ORA717DEV.US.ORACLE.COM>
>> scott_at_ORA717DEV.US.ORACLE.COM> select distinct key,
>> first_value(value) over ( partition by key
>> 2 order by lvl DESC nulls last ),
>> 3 first_value(lvl) over ( partition by key
>> 4 order by lvl DESC nulls last )
>> 5 from t
>> 6 /
>
> Er.... yes. Looks interesting. Unfortunately, I saw a lot of keywords
>never before in a context with SQL. This works since which version?
>
>TIA,
>
>Mirko

these analytic functions as they are called are supported with Oracle8i release 2 (8.1.6) and above.

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