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Re: How to UPDATE using ROWNUM and ORDER BY

From: Albert Dupond <ad_at_ad.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:52:27 +0200
Message-ID: <4118ef3b$0$32426$636a15ce@news.free.fr>


Sandy wrote:
> UPDATE MYTABLE
> SET COL1 = :newValue
> WHERE COL1 = 0
> AND ROWNUM = 1
> ORDER BY COL2;

 >
> How can I achieve the above

Rows are numbered before being ordered.
You have to use an ordered sub query, then apply criteria on rownum.

AD Received on Tue Aug 10 2004 - 10:52:27 CDT

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