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Re: ROWNUM - Questions

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:51:34 -0000
Message-ID: <91ni47$4r0$1@soap.pipex.net>

rowid?

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Nicolas Bronke" <newsgroup_at_trinity.de> wrote in message
news:91ltqn$j23$05$1_at_news.t-online.com...

> ROWNUM is nice, but for my appl. the pity is that ROWNUM is independet to
a
> ORDER by. That mean
>
> select rownum,columnname from tablename
> and
> select rownum,columnname from tablename order by columnname
>
> brings not the rownumbering I am looking for.
>
> I need a rownumbering which is independent from the ordering.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nicolas
>
>
Received on Tue Dec 19 2000 - 05:51:34 CST

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