RE: Top-N records.

From: Sam P. Roberts (ZADCO ITIS) <roberts_at_zadco.co.ae>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:46:20 +0400
Message-Id: <10741.126635@fatcity.com>

Sachin,

This is only partially right depending on your interpretation of the question. If the top salary is 100,000 dollars and 50 people have that salary - your answer will bring back all 50 people - thats not top 20

Sorry matey, I'm not too impressed with your answer also

Sam Roberts

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From: Sachin Puri [mailto:sachin_at_siworldwide.com] Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:00 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Top-N records.

Aldi
I just saw this topic today. I also saw comments of various dbas regarding your query but was
not impressed by anyone.
You can successfully use this query and i bet this will not give you any problems:

select salary from employee x where 20 > (select count(*) from employee y where y.salary > x.salary) order by x.salary desc;

However if the u want to have top 20 distinct salaries then add distinct clause.

Sachin Puri
Oracle Development and Administration
Solutions Infosystems

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 2:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi List,

This question has been discussed so many times. But I dont have the trick now.
Could you please send me the trick to select top-20 salary of scott.employee table ?
Thanks.

Aldi

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