RE: Finding out last 10 records

From: Fink, Dan <Dan.Fink_at_mdx.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:05:59 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004B50C5.20020814110559@fatcity.com>

Spot on!

Using DISTINCT and indexes will also cause implicit sorting.

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Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

(snipped a lot from Dan's reply......)

>
> As you can see, the rownum is not altered with the sort
> order. In order to
> retrieve the first 10 records by name, you need to have the
> output sorted
> prior to assignment of rownum.

... to point out that 'group by' will allow you to achieve sorted order and application of rownum.

peter
edinburgh

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