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selecting 5 most recent records (oracle/sql newbie)

From: mr_oatmeal <mr_oatmeal_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:28:45 GMT
Message-ID: <ss06tt5fct646@corp.supernews.com> 






Hello,



I'm trying to figure out how to select the 5 most recent records (based on 
input_date) from a table...does anyone have a general idea how to do 
this.  So if 10 records were input today, i would want to return only the 
most recent 5.



ex_table



record_id 


input_date



Thanks



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