Thanks Vishal and veerendra jotle . I need to use rowid as i didn't get any other solution
Select Salary from tablename where rownum<=5 order by salary desc; instead of order by salary we have to use order by rowid thanks a lot.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vishal Chaddha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:25 PM Subject: Re: displaying 5th record > Hi Priti, > > You can execute following query from your JSP > > Select Salary from tablename where rownum<=5 order by salary desc; > > This will first arrange records in descending order of Salary and then limit > the count of records to 5. Data in first Record fetched would be highest > among thee five records. > > Hope this helps. > Vishal > > -----Original Message----- > From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Priti Chhetri > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 4:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: displaying 5th record > > > Hi All, > > I need to take out last 5 records from the table and without using any > condition and then I have display highest salary from retrieved Records in > JSP as I have one column as Salary .(using Oracle ).Quick answer would be > very much helpful > > > > thanks > Priti > > ========================= > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff > JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST > DIGEST". > > Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://forums.java.sun.com > 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 archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://forums.java.sun.com > 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 archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://forums.java.sun.com http://www.jspinsider.com
