selcting multiple rows

cr_aranganathan · New User Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 3

how to select multiple rows using select statement without using any condition.That if table contains 10 rows i want to select first or last n number rows without giving any condition in select statement.

mvanandkumar · New User Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 11

For DB2 version 7 / 8 not sure...the latest version has an SQL parm

'FETCH FIRST nnnn ROWS' will get you first nnnn rows....

There is no way you can get LAST nnn rows without doing some programming / including condition.

karthi_ind · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 3:53 pm

hi,

Ur question is not clear,

you can give

SELECT * FROM <tablename> FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY;

This option vll work only if ur db2 version is 7.1 and higher.

Corrections are welcome...

Karthi G.

tdsvamsidhar · New User Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 7

I think you can use order by clause for getting the first/last 10 rows using the same mentioned by others//

SELECT DEAL FROM LOG
ORDER BY DEAL ASC
FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY ;

SELECT DEAL FROM LOG
ORDER BY DEAL DESC
FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY ;

Please correct me if I am wrong in suggesting this solution.