Re: Highest Values

From: Dante <dnotari_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 09:56:19 GMT
Message-ID: <7iggg3$ffm$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

This seems to work in Oracle 8 or 8i only:

select *
  from (select *

          from mytable
         where <wherecondition>
      order by <the column which holds the values> desc
        )

where rownum <= 50

Regards
Dante

In article <7if1gq$ea2$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   rpereira_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:
> How can I get the 50's highest values in a column (number datatype)
> reading a table with one hundred of lines ?
>
> important: Using SQL (non PL-SQL)
>
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