Also, are you aware of the where clause?

e.g.

SELECT  id, blah1, blah2
FROM blahTable
where id = 3

Assuming id is a unique key, will only return the row you want.

Cheers,
Phil.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taco Fleur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CFAussie Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 9:43 AM
Subject: [cfaussie] RE: Select a single row in SQL


> TOP 1
> TOP 10 PERCENT
> Use order by to get the bottom
>
> Use SET ROWCOUNT 400 in SQL which is like MAXROWS in CF
>
> These will get you going..
>
> Taco
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Sabir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 November 2003 8:35 AM
> To: CFAussie Mailing List
> Subject: [cfaussie] Select a single row in SQL
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> This seems like a simple question... how do I only return a specific
> row from a database, in SQL?
>
> I have read about the LIMIT command, e.g.:
>
>  SELECT  id, blah1, blah2
>  FROM blahTable
>  LIMIT 3,1
>
> Which in theory should only return row 3, but this doesn't seem to
> work in MS SQL 2000. I think its a MySQL thing.
>
> I know I can do this in Cold Fusion using the startrow and maxrows
> attributes, but this would be inefficient as it would still be getting
> the entire table each time. Surely there's a way to do it in SQL?
>
> thanks, bye!
>
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