Re: Simple Question!

From: Steve Butler <sbut-is_at_seatimes.com>
Date: 1995/05/02
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950502115438.6617B-100000_at_seatimes>#1/1

>
> SELECT AGE FROM TABLE
> ORDER BY AGE
> WHERE ROWNUM <= 1000;
>
> That way, you order by age, returning the ages in ASC or DESC
> order depending on your chaoice, and filed, AGE_IN_YEARS or
> DATE_OF_BRITH, and the WHERE statement will stop the query when
> you've reached 1000 rows.

Actually, it's in the other order:
It will retrieve the 1000 rows AND THEN SORT 'em. Not what he wanted.

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