Re: SQL Question

From: Arun Shastry <arun_at_accentsoftware.com>
Date: 1998/06/22
Message-ID: <358E776D.ECAA8C56_at_accentsoftware.com>#1/1


The simplest I can think of is:

create temp table foo(seq serial, <columns>);

insert into foo(<columns>)
select <stuff>;

<columns> is everything you want in your select, without the row numbers.

Hope that helps,
Arun

js wrote:

> I am trying to figure out how to get a result set in which the row
> number is a column in the result set. For example, if I select n rows
> from a table, I need a column to contain 1 thru n. Optimally, the
> syntax needs to be ANSI standard SQL, but nearly any solution will do.
> Anyone have ideas?
>
> TIA
> JS
Received on Mon Jun 22 1998 - 00:00:00 CEST

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