Re: Return 30% of results?

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Martin Gainty <mgainty(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: nboutelier(at)gmail(dot)com, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Return 30% of results?
Date: 2009-09-18 23:58:54
Message-ID: 20090918235854.GA22359@fetter.org
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On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 07:54:30PM -0400, Martin Gainty wrote:
>
> //Display the top 40 % of rows in BB_DEPARTMENT
>
> SQL> select ROWNUM,ID FROM EMPLOYEES WHERE ROWNUM < .3*(SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM BB
> _DEPARTMENT) GROUP BY ROWNUM,ID;
>
> ROWNUM
> ----------
> 1
> HTH
> Martin Gainty

That's Oracle, not PostgreSQL. Are you really trying to help here?

Cheers,
David.
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