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From Frank Joerdens
Subject trivial problem
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Msg-id 19991029145529.A2258@flateric.x9media.com
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Responses Re: [SQL] trivial problem  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
Re: [SQL] trivial problem  (Mathijs Brands <mathijs@ilse.nl>)
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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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