Try looking at Oracle's ROWNUM field which will allow you to select specific rows from a result. Something like
SELECT whatever FROM (SELECT whatever, RONUM rnum from TABLE order by SOMEFIELD) WHERE rnum between 11 and 20 will do nicely. Clayton ----- Original Message ----- From: "JOSHY MON M C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:34 AM Subject: Urgent Help needed ! > Hi All, > Can Anybody help ? > > I have a Oracle 9i table named Contacts which contain about 10000 records. I > need to show them in a JSP page ordered by last name or first name or in any > other order (as per user request). But only 100 records should be shown at a > time. User can click "Previous" or "Next" links to see more records ( as in > Google/Yahoo search ) > > I have done this by creating a temporary table. Records are sorted and kept > in the temporary table . But this seems to be a very slow and inefficient > method. ( Each request involves a select from the original table, creation > of tempory table, insertion into temp table and finally select from temp > table. ) Can anybody suggest a better approach ? > > Thanks > Joshy > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
