SQL question: How to select by keyword and returned dataset size ?

I am new to SQL/Oracle8 and I have the following question:

I have a table with 2 fields (Date time_stamp, Double data) and I would like to
construct a query statement Query(Date start_time, Integer x) that will return
at most x records that are timestamped after the start_time. The rationale is that my Chart GUI can only display a limited size dataset.

Is there an easy way to do this ?

In a way, this output requirement is similar to the limited search results returned from web search engines such as Infoseek. However, these search engines use specialized database, not Oracle.

Thanks for any info.

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Charles Sun
csun_at_geneve.arc.nasa.gov Received on Mon May 18 1998 - 22:01:14 CEST