on 10/17/00 11:15 AM, Shawnea Carter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> How do you write a SQL statement that will return the top 10 of something
> (eg. top 10 salaries, top ten students by GPA, top ten populated counties,
> etc.)?

Wouldn't you just do:

<cfquery name="gettopstudents" datasource="#dsn#" maxrows=10>
select studentname from students
order by GPA desc
</cfquery>

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Rob Keniger

big bang solutions

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