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Re: ??? What is the substitution for the function FIRST in ORACLE????

From: IANAL_VISTA <IANAL_Vista_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:08:11 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns96097B75DF4CCSunnySD@68.6.19.6> 





"G-Shock" <g-shock_at_g-shock.com> wrote in
news:4220b725$1_at_news.012.net.il: 



> Hi There,

> MS-Access hes FIRST() function but Oracle ): hasn't.

> 




In a real RDBMS there is no such thing as a FIRST or LAST record of a table
FIRST & LAST are based upon some order being placed on 1 or more columns.
A table is just a collection of records without any inherent order.
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