Paul Baumgartel wrote:
> 
> I've been given a query to investigate.  The performance varies
> extremely depending on whether the entire result set is fetched or a
> ROWNUM < n clause is attached; that makes sense to me.  What doesn't
> make sense is the following:  if we add WHERE ROWNUM < 50, the query
> returns 24 rows.  If we add WHERE ROWNUM < 1000, the query returns 336
> rows!
> 
> I don't know the size of the entire result set (I'm running a count
> right now), but if the result set consists of at least 336 rows,
> shouldn't WHERE ROWNUM < 50 return 49 rows?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> =====
> Paul Baumgartel, Adept Computer Associates, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

Wow! a nice case ! Could you please post the query ?
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