Best to ask your questions on the list, so others may find them, with (hopefully) helpful answers in the archives in the future. so, you've got a table with indistinguishable rows. I'm afraid you've got to use an non ANSI extension. Every DB I've ever used has something equivelant. In PostgreSQL, it's the 'oid', so in your case, you'd do: SELECT oid,Name from tablename; and see something like: oid Name ------- ------- 102453 ibrahim first row 102455 ibrahim second row 103756 ibrahim third row Then, you can delete, comparing on the oid: DELETE FROM tablename WHERE oid=102455; Ross On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:23:42AM -0700, ibrahim cobanoglu wrote: > Hi. my name is ibrahim > > i have one problem with multiple rows.. > > i have a table named record and this table consist one > field (name) > > in this field there are 3 values such as > Name > ------- > ibrahim first row > ibrahim second row > ibrahim third row > > i want to delete only the second row. ( with Ansi > SQL (no cursor, trigger, rowid, rownum,....etc.) use > select, count, .... (whats required!) ) > > but i dont know How to delete.. > > its really improtant for me. > > i will glad.... > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly