I want to fetch the 10th row of a table which has been
changed.How can I do it without going thru all the rows.

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I want to fetch the 10th row of a table which has been changed.How can I do it without going thru ..

Answer / m4io

DECLARE cursor_name sensitivity SCROLL CURSOR FOR
SELECT ... FROM ...

FETCH ABSOLUTE 10 FROM cursor_name

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I want to fetch the 10th row of a table which has been changed.How can I do it without going thru ..

Answer / divya,roshini,tiny

use scrollable cursor for fetching the 10th row

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I want to fetch the 10th row of a table which has been changed.How can I do it without going thru ..

Answer / andyb

Why?
How do you know the one you want is still the 10th row ?
Other updates may have taken place.

If you know the key for the record you want then use that

Otherrwise unless the table has a sequential numeric key
then I think you have to go through the rows.

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I want to fetch the 10th row of a table which has been changed.How can I do it without going thru ..

Answer / nadeem

Use any one column name and its value of the 10th row to
fetch the 10th..for eg
select * from Table where deptno = 0010(any column name and
its value of 10 row)

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I want to fetch the 10th row of a table which has been changed.How can I do it without going thru ..

Answer / satish.klnm

exec sql
select * from table222 where count(*) > 9
end-exec.

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