Oracle FAQ | Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid |
Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: First
Joel Garry wrote:
> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1091760257.481557_at_yasure>...
>
>
>>Once again ... reread the OP's post. The request never once indicated an >>interest in first anything. FIRST only occurs in some crude pseudocode. >>It is not in the description of what was requested.
>>Hi, >> >>Does Qracle 9i support a SELECT that returns >>only a subset of the records >> >>something link >> >>SELECT FIRST 1 * FROM tablename
To answer your question honestly ... yes. I think one person latched onto the word FIRST in the pseudocode and everyone else followed up on that response rather than reading the question.
Glenfiddich or not ... and actually it was Macalan ... there is no way you can turn "subset of the records" into FIRST unless you're drikning Stoli.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)Received on Fri Aug 06 2004 - 16:50:28 CDT