Rod,
> Something along the lines of the below would accomplish what you want
> according to spec. ROW_NUMBER() is a spec defined function. (6.10 of
> SQL200N)
Great leaping little gods! They added something called "row number" to the
spec?
Boy howdy, folks were right ... the ANSI committee really has completly blown
off the relational model completely. First there was the addition of
network-database functions so that IBM could make DB2 look more like a real
database, now this ....
When a standards committee becomes hostage to a handful of vendors, kiss real
standards goodbye.
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco