OK thanks a lot for your answers.

Regarding the 'ORDER BY RANDOM()', you also plan to have something similar?

regards
Ludovic


Lance Andersen-2 wrote:
> 
> I believe there is an enhancement request to add LIMIT to Derby.   
> While it is not part of the SQL standard, most database vendor support  
> LIMIT or something similar and it is easier to use than ROW_NUMBER.   
> It would be a nice feature to consider.
> 
> JDBC 4.1 we will provide a JDBC escape for LIMIT.
> 
> Regards
> Lance
> On Apr 8, 2008, at 4:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>> unludo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to use the following constraints at the end of some  
>>> queries:
>>>
>>> SELECT a FROM B WHERE c = 'toto' ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 10;
>>
>> LIMIT is a non-standard extension. Derby 10.4 (soon to be released)
>> includes the SQL ROW_NUMBER function which will let you do the same  
>> thing,
>> although with a different and slightly more verbose syntax.
>>
>> -- 
>> dt
> 
> 
> 

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