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how to find the top 5 biggest value from a query [message #35842] Thu, 18 October 2001 15:20 Go to next message
hugewater
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Registered: October 2001
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Suppose there are 1000 values selected after a query, how can I find top 5 biggest values from the results

Thanks

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Re: how to find the top 5 biggest value from a query [message #35843 is a reply to message #35842] Thu, 18 October 2001 16:07 Go to previous message
Mark Hibberd
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Registered: October 2001
Junior Member
Try this...

select col_name
from table_name
where blah... blah... blah...
AND rownum <= 5
order by col_name

HTH,
-Mark

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