in Oracle 8i....
SELECT COL1,COL2
FROM ( SELECT COL1,COL2
FROM AM15
GROUP BY COL1, COL2
ORDER BY COL1 DESC, COL2 ASC)
WHERE ROWNUM < 8
Amar Kumar Padhi
Software Consultant
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Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 1:50 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Consider the following case.
TABLE : DEPT
empid number,
deptid number,
deptname varchar2(30)
primary key (empid, deptid)
now i want to fetch first seven records from a cursor whose deptid is
maximum
and empid is minimum. kindly let me know how to write this cursor
statement.for example.
SQL> select deptid, empid from dept;
DEPTID EMPID
--------- ---------
2 94204
2 94205
2 94206
2 94207
2 94208
5 94209
5 94210
5 94211
5 94212
5 94213
7 94214
7 94215
7 94216
7 94217
7 94218
15 rows selected.
i want output as following by single query.
DEPTID EMPID
--------- ---------
7 94214
7 94215
7 94216
7 94217
7 94218
5 94209
5 94210
7 rows selected
kindly reply.. thanks in advance.
regards
paresh mehta
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