> I need to pull Top n (lets say three) from an oracle 8i db. Now SQL Server
> makes this really easy to do. How would I go about doing it in Oracle? I
> have tried sub selects and rownum and stuff, but the order gets al hosed up
> if I use those. Basically I need them ordered by date desc.
Do that, then only print the first three rows - you can access your query as a
structure remember !
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