Re: Getting first/last record

>Being a bit of a newbee, to oracle8 can anybody help with the following.
>1.How to get the first record in an ordered table
>2 How to get the last record in an ordered table.
>the order being on date then time.

The Oracle DATE format stores both the date and the time in one field. So you can just query the date field. Assuming the table is named 'TABLEX' and the date field is labelled 'COLX', try this:

   SELECT min(COLX), max(COLX) from TABLEX;

Hope that helps,
Brian Peasland
peasland_at_msn.com Received on Wed Jul 14 1999 - 22:36:50 CDT