Oracle-L: Re: Finding out last 10 records

From: Jack van Zanen <nlzanen1_at_EY.NL>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 02:28:24 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004B4056.20020814022824@fatcity.com>

AFAIK Oracle keeps no timestamp of when a record was inserted.It also reuses the space freed up by deletes which means rownum can not be used either So I don't think that it's possible to do such thing and have any guaranteeswithout extra sql .
The only way to go is to add a kolom and fill that with a sequence number
(overhead). Timestamp may work but only limited to whole second I believe.

Jack

                                                                                                                                       
                      "Santosh Varma"                                                                                                  
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Hello all

Could any one of you guide me on how to select last 10 records from a table. and also finding out first 10 records..

Thanks and regards,

Santosh

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