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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Selecting Next X Values From Dual
I created a package that would easily loop thru and select x number of
entries, but not return them in a select to you. This way, you can make 1
simple call passing it X.
Is that what you wanted ??? Or do you have to have them as returned values of a select ?
Kevin
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Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:38 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Anjo...
Thanks for the reply!!
> If X is fixed for all sessions, do a step increase of X so that you
> only have to select 1 row from dual.
Unfortunately, I don't feel I can do that. I'm using the returned values as unique identifiers to protect against duplicate database submissions from a web-based application.
I have implemented a workaround by selecting a row from dual X number of times. I wanted something a bit cleaner, and [seemingly] less database-intensive than querying in a loop.
Gary Chambers
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