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Tiago R. Espinha commented on DERBY-4192:
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Great, Dag.

I shall make it into a patch then, with the change that you suggested. That 
does make it clearer that the row filtering happens after the sorting.

There is just one thing that I didn't follow. You said that returning a subset 
of the rows without ordering is not portable. What do you mean by this?

I reckon that the row filtering ability is only really useful when there is 
sorting in place, but it works regardlessly of that, right?

> OFFSET and FETCH FIRST documentation improvement
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-4192
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4192
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 10.5.1.1
>            Reporter: Tiago R. Espinha
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I have a suggestion regarding the documentation for the OFFSET and FETCH 
> FIRST documentation. On these documents, we have three SQL examples on the 
> usage of these clauses. I suggest that we add a brief description of what 
> each clause does.
> This might help the users to have a better understanding at first of how the 
> said clauses work.
> Here are the examples with a possible description:
> -- This query fetches the first row from T
> SELECT * FROM T FETCH FIRST ROW ONLY;
> -- This query skips the first 10 rows and fetches the following 10.
> -- It will fetch rows 11 through 20 (inclusive) from the table T, sorted by I
> SELECT * FROM T ORDER BY I OFFSET 10 ROWS FETCH NEXT 10 ROWS ONLY;
> -- This query skips the first 100 rows from T.
> -- If the table has less than 101 records, then an empty result set is 
> returned.
> SELECT * FROM T OFFSET 100 ROWS;

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