Re: Question: Finding the nth row in a table

Hello,

    Can you tell the logic of how you got this idea...?

from
satish :satishn_at_blr.sni.de

Heber Ferraz-Leite wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:22:18 -0800, "David Russell" <user_at_msn.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I am afraid that this is not strictly true, ROWNUM is caculated from the
> >row source, before any sorting occurs. This means if you use ROWNUM in
> >queries that perform sorts the results will be inconsistent.
>
> I had written the follwing:
>
> >> select whatever from atable where rownum=n oder by whatever;
>
> As others have already stated I made a wrong statement. The above
> select won't work. It would have been nice, but ...
>
> Sorry for the mistake. I was too quick to answer and should have
> thought before. :-(
>
> Heber
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Received on Thu Nov 27 1997 - 00:00:00 CST