Thanks Patrick, problem solved.

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Patrick van Kleef <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Nikolaos,
>
>
>
>> I am using Virtuoso 6.1 as a relational database backend (so far). I see
>> in the select statement reference
>>
>> http://docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/SELECTSTMT.html
>>
>> that the LIMIT construct (found e.g. in mysql) is not supported.
>>
>> How would I submit an sql query of the form:
>>
>> SELECT t FROM some_table ORDER BY t DESC LIMIT 1 OFFSET 50
>>
>> is there a workaround for the LIMIT and OFFSET constructs in Virtuoso? If
>> no, are there any plans to support LIMIT?
>>
>>
> You need to use the TOP function which is the SQL-92 compliant way of doing
> this e.g.:
>
> http://docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/SELECTSTMT.html#topselectoption
>
>
> SELECT TOP (50,1) t FROM some_table ORDER BY t DESC
>
> which will skip the first 50 records from some_table based on the ordering
> and returns just 1 record.
>
>
>
> Patrick
>
>

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