On 12-Nov-2001 yilmaz wrote:
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
look for LIMIT in the manual.
Regards,
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(53kr33t w0rdz: sql table query)
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