>>>I am using ORACLE 7.3 .
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>I want to use single SQL statement.
>>>
>>>some thing like this algorithm.
>>>
>>>select first 5 records from ("select sal from employee order by sal desc " )
>>>
>>>I tried to use rownum, count() etc. but in fail.
>>>
>>>I dont want to use Foxpro .
>>
>>Hello Satya,
>>
>>Try this
>>

>>    SELECT e.name, ,
>>         (SELECT e1.sal
>>          FROM employee AS e1
>>          WHERE (blah - enter your 'where clause' here) ) AS rank
>>      FROM employee AS e
>>      WHERE rank <= 5;
>>

>>
>>This was taken from the Q&A section of an excellent site called the SQL PRO at
>>http://www.inquiry.com/techtips/thesqlpro/index.html
>>
>>Steve
>
>Steve, if you'll read this whole thread, you find out that UT is also excellent site.

Sorry Edward, I didn't know there was only allowed one excellent site on the net (big grin).

Steve