Comments on: Simple Oracle pagination http://www.hazaah.com/databases/simple-oracle-pagination/ buffle the world Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:20:09 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: James Holder http://www.hazaah.com/databases/simple-oracle-pagination/comment-page-1/#comment-1301 James Holder Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:33:32 +0000 http://www.knowbies.com/vladimir-cvetic/something-else/simple-oracle-pagination/#comment-1301 I don't think that is going to work in oracle, especially without an order by clause, and even then I don't think it will always work. Since there is no guarantee that oracle will return the records in the same order, even in the same query, and rownum is only a pseudo-cloumn at that.You'd have to query and order by, and then requery that ordered query to get a recordset that actually has the rownums correctly assigned. To use the minus statement i think you'd have to do something like: (select * from (select * from emp where rownum I don’t think that is going to work in oracle, especially without an order by clause, and even then I don’t think it will always work. Since there is no guarantee that oracle will return the records in the same order, even in the same query, and rownum is only a pseudo-cloumn at that.You’d have to query and order by, and then requery that ordered query to get a recordset that actually has the rownums correctly assigned.

To use the minus statement i think you’d have to do something like:
(select * from
(select * from emp
where rownum

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