Jared, Probably it is not clear from my post, but ROWNUM is still useless WITHOUT an order by. And original poster had no clue on what to order by to start with.
Raj ______________________________________________________ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having an opinion is an art! -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Rownum is not necessarily useless for this kind of query. In versions of Oracle (8i+) where an inline view can include an order by, it can be rather useful. Top 5 salaries: select ename, sal from ( select ename, sal from scott.emp order by sal desc ) a where rownum < 6 Jared
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