Re: [SQL] trivial problem

select * from table order by column limit 50

Oleg

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Frank Joerdens wrote:

> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 14:55:29 +0200
> From: Frank Joerdens <frank(at)x9media(dot)com>
> To: pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: [SQL] trivial problem
>
> this sounds as if there must be a rather trivial solution:
>
> i am looking for the 50 rows with the largest value for a particular
> column. i could create a view with
>
> create view as select * from table order by column;
>
> and then somehow only retrieve the top 50 rows . . . but how?
>
> thanks
>
> frank
>
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