Re: Rownum function with order by statement

You can do it in Oracle 8.1.5 or use subquery with DISTINCT in FROM clause.

Mark Malakanov wrote:

> ROWNUM value calculated before sorting. Unfortunately so.
>
> try
>
> select rownum, a
> from (select distinct a from sometable)
>
> Mark
>
> Harlin Setiadarma <harlins_at_bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:37dd0b2b.0_at_news.cbn.net.id...
> > Hi,
> > can anybody help me ?
> >
> > I want to :
> > select rownum, a
> > from sometable
> > order by a
> >
> > where a :
> >
> > 5
> > 3
> > 6
> > 2
> >
> > The result I expected is :
> > 1 2
> > 2 3
> > 3 5
> > 4 6
> >
> > Thanks in advance....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
Received on Sun Oct 10 1999 - 06:39:57 CDT