RE: ***Urgent Question***

From: Amar Kumar Padhi <TS2017_at_emirates.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:06:51 +0400
Message-Id: <10758.127892@fatcity.com>

in Oracle 8i....
SELECT COL1,COL2
FROM ( SELECT COL1,COL2

               FROM AM15
               GROUP BY COL1, COL2
               ORDER BY COL1 DESC, COL2 ASC)

WHERE ROWNUM < 8  

Amar Kumar Padhi
Software Consultant

-----Original Message-----

From: Local Folders [mailto:asmika_at_satyam.net.in] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 1:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: ***Urgent Question***

Consider the following case.
TABLE : DEPT

empid             number,
deptid             number,
deptname        varchar2(30)

primary key (empid, deptid)  

now i want to fetch first seven records from a cursor whose deptid is maximum
and empid is minimum. kindly let me know how to write this cursor statement.for example.  

SQL> select deptid, empid from dept;  

 DEPTID EMPID
--------- ---------

        2     94204
        2     94205
        2     94206
        2     94207
        2     94208
        5     94209
        5     94210
        5     94211
        5     94212
        5     94213
        7     94214
        7     94215
        7     94216
        7     94217
        7     94218
 

15 rows selected.  

i want output as following by single query.  

 DEPTID EMPID
--------- ---------

        7     94214
        7     94215
        7     94216
        7     94217
        7     94218
        5     94209
        5     94210
 

7 rows selected Received on Wed Jan 31 2001 - 09:06:51 CST