Yes , Jusy As you say,Mark ..
Thanks.
  Using =  seems unreliable to use.
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select empid, empname, dept
   from employees
  where rownum = 3546;

When you are looking for scott..

That is pretty unreliable, and I think that is what Bunyamin(?) was getting
at..

Regards

Mark

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I agree with your solution.
But why, using a ronum on a single select statement may not be reliable ?

Mark Leith wrote:

> In this case, the rownum should not be a problem when using it in a sub
> select? You are only trying to get the first seven rows from the sub
> select.. Whats the problem?
>
> Fair enough, using a rownum on a single select may not be reliable, but in
> this case it should work like a charm..
>
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> K.Karadeniz
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:31
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>
> No, No not for this statement , my group leader tells that rownum is not
> used so much in applications becouse it can give wrong results sometimes.
I
> do not know if it is correct . I ask you for approve him or not..
>   Thanks
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> paresh mehta,
> what was wrong with the sql-statement using <rownum>
>
> It works perfeclty, or am I wrong ??
>
> regards
>
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> Betreff: ***Problem***
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> Consider the following case.
> TABLE : DEPT
> empid             number,
> deptid             number,
> deptname        varchar2(30)
> primary key (empid, deptid)
>
> now i want to fetch first seven records from a cursor whose deptid is
> maximum
> and empid is minimum. kindly let me know how to write this cursor
> statement.for example.
>
> SQL> select deptid, empid from dept;
>
>  DEPTID   EMPID
> ---------       ---------
>         2     94204
>         2     94205
>         2     94206
>         2     94207
>         2     94208
>         5     94209
>         5     94210
>         5     94211
>         5     94212
>         5     94213
>         7     94214
>         7     94215
>         7     94216
>         7     94217
>         7     94218
>
> 15 rows selected.
>
> i want output as following by single query.
>
>  DEPTID   EMPID
> ---------      ---------
>         7     94214
>         7     94215
>         7     94216
>         7     94217
>         7     94218
>         5     94209
>         5     94210
>
> 7 rows selected
>
> kindly reply.. thanks in advance.
>
> regards
> paresh mehta
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