Re: What do Oracle professionals think of Fabian Pascal?

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:

> > ROWNUM is a hack that predated analytical SQL extensions, and some of
> > these extensions do make sence for an end user. Otherwise, how do you
> > express the query
 

> Without using ROWNUM please provide the equivalent to the following:
 

> SELECT *
> FROM t
> WHERE rownum < 37;

At the risk of sounding stupid, what *_exactly_* does this query mean?

The first 37 rows that were inserted into the table?

The first 37 that the system happens to find in RAM or on Disk?

Paul...

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