Hi all, i want to keep the track of row numbers to display the results , say, five by five. the most common way to do this is defining a column which is auto_incrementing and not null. but htere is a problem with this approach. say, i have a table which stores the subject and contents of articles, and it has a primary key, say "pk". since pk is auto incrementing , whenever a new article is added it will increment by one.However, if i delete an article ( a row) it will not decrement. So when i want to display them five by five, i will have trouble, because some numbers do not exist. In oracle there is an imbedded variable called rownum, so that you can workaround this. Is there a similar varible or a kind of solution for this problem? i am looking forward to your help, and suggestions. many thanks in advance cheers :)
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