heh actually it confused me a touch.I believe that I understand
what you're saying though I don't know what TOP type records are.
Maybe I should specify my situation. I'm doing a WHAT'S NEW
section of a web page.I want the 3 most recently entered items.
I've adjusted my current query to my
Close, and you shouldn't use select * from..
CFQUERY NAME=whatsnew DATASOURCE=dpch
--change this from select * to whatever else
select * from
(
select * FROM whats_new
WHERE dateAdded #dateAdd(d,-7,Now())#
order by dateAdded DESC
)
WHERE ROWNUM 4
/CFQUERY
-Original Message-
I think you may have it reversed.Work from the inside out.
The sub select (or inner select) pulls back *every* row where dateadded sysdate-7 (by the way shouldn't you use dateadded =sysdate-7?)
Then the outer select simply returns the first three rows from that.
Jason Gulledge.
-Original
Ah great thanks.I learned alot.
So, let me re-iterate a bit.
- The first select is the general search where I'm selecting 3 from
the total and I list the columns that I want.I want all of them,
but it's still better to directly list them both for readability and
accuracy.
- The second select is
I don't have my big red book handy, but isn't there a restriction in
Oracle where you can add columns but not drop them (or vice versa)?
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Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 5, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Daniel Kessler wrote:
I'm trying to add a column in my DB in Oracle.I'm doing:
ALTER TABLE
As for your other question:
SELECT TOP 3 FROM FOO
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Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 5, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Daniel Kessler wrote:
I'm trying to add a column in my DB in Oracle.I'm doing:
ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD (imagevarchar2(100));
I also tried:
ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD column
Try putting quotes around the table and column names
At 11:16 AM 5/5/04, you wrote:
I'm trying to add a column in my DB in Oracle.I'm doing:
ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD (imagevarchar2(100));
I also tried:
ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD column imagevarchar2(100);
but I get the error about line 4 of
Sorry, wrong database...
SELECT * FROM foo WHERE rownum 4
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Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 5, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Howard Fore wrote:
As for your other question:
SELECT TOP 3 FROM FOO
--
Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 5, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Daniel Kessler wrote:
I'm
I'm trying to add a column in my DB in Oracle.I'm doing:
ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD (imagevarchar2(100));
I also tried:
ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD column imagevarchar2(100);
but I get the error about line 4 of the cfm.This is a reference to
the text field from the form that contains the above line
Sorry, wrong database...
SELECT * FROM foo WHERE rownum 4
Note that this will not work if you have any sort of ORDER BY clause because
Oracle uses the rownum clause before the ORDER BY. This is why I posted the
other way of doing SQL Server's version of TOP.
Regards,
Dave.
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Subject: Re: add a column in oracle
Sorry, wrong database...
SELECT * FROM foo WHERE rownum 4
Note that this will not work if you have any sort of ORDER BY clause because
Oracle uses the rownum clause before the ORDER BY. This is why I posted the
other way of doing SQL Server's version
Thanks everyone who replied.I have it working now.
As for adding the column.It was the quotes that helped.yay!
I'm trying to add a column in my DB in Oracle.I'm doing:
ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD (imagevarchar2(100));
I also tried:
ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD column imagevarchar2(100);
but I get the
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