Answered Questions

  • Fetch Alternate Rows

    How to fetch alternate rows from the table?

    Ram

    • Feb 6th, 2013

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    1. SELECT * FROM EMP
    2. WHERE (ROWID,1) IN (SELECT ROWID,MOD(ROWNUM,2) FROM EMP);
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    4. OR
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    6. SELECT * FROM (SELECT EMP.*,ROWNUM K FROM EMP)
    7. WHERE MOD(k,2)=0;

    Millar

    • Jul 26th, 2012

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    1. SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE mod(primary_key_column,2)=0 --to find even rows in a table
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    3. SELECT * FROM employees WHERE mod(employee_id,2)=0 --to find even rows in a table
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    5. SELECT * FROM employees WHERE mod(employee_id,2)=1 --to find odd rows in a table

  • How do I retrieve the last row of a table?

    Arbind Kumar Singh

    • Jul 23rd, 2012

    sql query for retrieving last row particular column value depending upon its ID??? QUERY: select top 1 [column_name1],[column_name2] from [table_name] where ID=[ID_value] order by index desc here i...

    Ambarish

    • Apr 19th, 2012

    Select last(column_name) from Table.