Answer by vinaych for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
WITH r AS ( SELECT TOP 1000 * FROM emp)SELECT * FROM rEXCEPTSELECT TOP 999 FROM rThis will give the 1000th row in SQL Server.
View ArticleAnswer by 3rdRockSoftware for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
I'm a bit late to the party here but I have done this without the need for windowing or usingWHERE x IN (...)SELECT TOP 1--select the value needed from t1[col2]FROM( SELECT TOP 2 --the Nth row, alter...
View ArticleAnswer by FoxArc for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
If you want to look at native functionalities: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Oracle (basically SQL Server doesn't seem to have this function) you could ACTUALLY use the NTH_VALUE window...
View ArticleAnswer by Mashood Murtaza for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
Most suitable answer I have seen on this article for sql serverWITH myTableWithRows AS ( SELECT (ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY myTable.SomeField)) as row,* FROM myTable)SELECT * FROM myTableWithRows...
View ArticleAnswer by nPcomp for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
For SQL server, the following will return the first row from giving table.declare @rowNumber int = 1; select TOP(@rowNumber) * from [dbo].[someTable];EXCEPT select TOP(@rowNumber - 1) * from...
View ArticleAnswer by Kaushik Nayak for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
In Oracle 12c, You may use OFFSET..FETCH..ROWS option with ORDER BYFor example, to get the 3rd record from top:SELECT * FROM sometableORDER BY column_nameOFFSET 2 ROWS FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY;
View ArticleAnswer by John Deighan for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
It seems to me that, to be efficient, you need to 1) generate a random number between 0 and one less than the number of database records, and 2) be able to select the row at that position....
View ArticleAnswer by Dwipam Katariya for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
select * from (select * from ordered order by order_id limit 100) x order by x.order_id desc limit 1;First select top 100 rows by ordering in ascending and then select last row by ordering in...
View ArticleAnswer by user5085719 for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
This is how I'd do it within DB2 SQL, I believe the RRN (relative record number) is stored within the table by the O/S;SELECT * FROM ( SELECT RRN(FOO) AS RRN, FOO.* FROM FOO ORDER BY RRN(FOO)) BAR...
View ArticleAnswer by JOATMON for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
Nothing fancy, no special functions, in case you use Caché like I do...SELECT TOP 1 * FROM ( SELECT TOP n * FROM <table> ORDER BY ID Desc)ORDER BY ID ASCGiven that you have an ID column or a...
View ArticleAnswer by Arjun Chiddarwar for How to select the nth row in a SQL database...
SELECT top 1 *FROM table_nameWHERE column_name IN ( SELECT top N column_name FROM TABLE ORDER BY column_name )ORDER BY column_name DESCI've written this query for finding Nth row.Example with this...
View ArticleAnswer by Rameshwar Pawale for How to select the nth row in a SQL database...
Verify it on SQL Server:Select top 10 * From emp EXCEPTSelect top 9 * From empThis will give you 10th ROW of emp table!
View ArticleAnswer by Aditya for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
SQL SERVERSelect n' th record from topSELECT * FROM (SELECT ID, NAME, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY ID) AS ROWFROM TABLE ) AS TMP WHERE ROW = nselect n' th record from bottomSELECT * FROM (SELECT ID,...
View ArticleAnswer by Amit Shah for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
Here is a fast solution of your confusion.SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY `id` DESC LIMIT N, 1Here You may get Last row by Filling N=0, Second last by N=1, Fourth Last By Filling N=3 and so on. This is...
View ArticleAnswer by E-A for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
For example, if you want to select every 10th row in MSSQL, you can use;SELECT * FROM ( SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ColumnName1 ASC) AS rownumber, ColumnName1, ColumnName2 FROM TableName) AS...
View ArticleAnswer by Sangeeth Krishna for How to select the nth row in a SQL database...
T-SQL - Selecting N'th RecordNumber from a Table select * from (select row_number() over (order by Rand() desc) as Rno,* from TableName) T where T.Rno = RecordNumberWhere RecordNumber --> Record...
View ArticleAnswer by monibius for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
SQL 2005 and above has this feature built-in. Use the ROW_NUMBER() function. It is excellent for web-pages with a << Prev and Next >> style browsing:Syntax:SELECT *FROM ( SELECT ROW_NUMBER...
View ArticleAnswer by Eric for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
For SQL Server, a generic way to go by row number is as such:SET ROWCOUNT @row --@row = the row number you wish to work on.For Example:set rowcount 20 --sets row to 20th rowselect meat, cheese from...
View ArticleAnswer by Rahul Sharma for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
SELECT * FROM emp aWHERE n = (SELECT COUNT( _rowid) FROM emp b WHERE a. _rowid >= b. _rowid);
View ArticleAnswer by jrEving for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
unbelievable that you can find a SQL engine executing this one ...WITH sentence AS(SELECT stuff, row = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Id)FROM SentenceType )SELECT sen.stuffFROM sentence senWHERE sen.row =...
View ArticleAnswer by Troels Arvin for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
Contrary to what some of the answers claim, the SQL standard is not silent regarding this subject. Since SQL:2003, you have been able to use "window functions" to skip rows and limit result sets. And...
View ArticleAnswer by Nick Berardi for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
1 small change: n-1 instead of n.select *from thetablelimit n-1, 1
View ArticleAnswer by Henrik Gustafsson for How to select the nth row in a SQL database...
There are ways of doing this in optional parts of the standard, but a lot of databases support their own way of doing it.A really good site that talks about this and other things is...
View ArticleAnswer by Graeme Perrow for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
In Sybase SQL Anywhere:SELECT TOP 1 START AT n * from table ORDER BY whateverDon't forget the ORDER BY or it's meaningless.
View ArticleAnswer by John Dyer for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
But really, isn't all this really just parlor tricks for good database design in the first place? The few times I needed functionality like this it was for a simple one off query to make a quick...
View ArticleAnswer by Mark Harrison for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
Oracle:select * from (select foo from bar order by foo) where ROWNUM = x
View ArticleAnswer by Adam V for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
When we used to work in MSSQL 2000, we did what we called the "triple-flip":EDITEDDECLARE @InnerPageSize intDECLARE @OuterPageSize intDECLARE @Count intSELECT @Count = COUNT(<column>) FROM...
View ArticleAnswer by Neall for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
PostgreSQL supports windowing functions as defined by the SQL standard, but they're awkward, so most people use (the non-standard) LIMIT / OFFSET:SELECT *FROM mytableORDER BY somefieldLIMIT 1 OFFSET...
View ArticleAnswer by Tim for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
I suspect this is wildly inefficient but is quite a simple approach, which worked on a small dataset that I tried it on.select top 1 fieldfrom tablewhere field in (select top 5 field from table order...
View ArticleAnswer by Ellen Teapot for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
I'm not sure about any of the rest, but I know SQLite and MySQL don't have any "default" row ordering. In those two dialects, at least, the following snippet grabs the 15th entry from the_table,...
View ArticleAnswer by Greg Hurlman for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
Here's a generic version of a sproc I recently wrote for Oracle that allows for dynamic paging/sorting - HTH-- p_LowerBound = first row # in the returned set; if second page of 10 rows,-- this would be...
View ArticleAnswer by Kibbee for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
LIMIT n,1 doesn't work in MS SQL Server. I think it's just about the only major database that doesn't support that syntax. To be fair, it isn't part of the SQL standard, although it is so widely...
View ArticleAnswer by Andrew G. Johnson for How to select the nth row in a SQL database...
ADD:LIMIT n,1That will limit the results to one result starting at result n.
View ArticleHow to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
I'm interested in learning some (ideally) database agnostic ways of selecting the nth row from a database table. It would also be interesting to see how this can be achieved using the native...
View ArticleAnswer by Shah Fahad for How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?
To select the nth row up to the mth row within a specific range from a table in SQL, you can use the LIMIT clause along with the OFFSET clause. The OFFSET clause specifies the number of rows to skip...
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