>>I am using ORACLE 7.3 .
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>>I have one table "employee" with a column "sal" .
>>I have inserted the data into the sal in random order.
>>Now I want to retrive the rows from that table who draw the maximum salary. (sal).
>>
>>That is first 5 records after the list is selected by using "order by desc " clause.
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>>I want to use single SQL statement.
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>>some thing like this algorithm.
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>>select first 5 records from ("select sal from employee order by sal desc " )
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>>I tried to use rownum, count() etc. but in fail.
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>>I dont want to use Foxpro .
>>
>>
>>--Satya
>
>If you would want to use Foxpro then SELECT TOP 5 .... will do this job. If you don't want to use Foxpro, then what is a purpose to post this question on Foxpro forum?


I am using ODBC support to connect oracle with VFP. And don't want to use one more query to get top 5 records that have been fetched by the SQLexec command.