MS-SQL - Oracle SELECT INTO conversion problem...

Question

Under MS-SQL (T-SQL) Select statement is defined as follows:
SELECT select_list
[INTO new_table_]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FROM table_source
[WHERE search_condition]
[GROUP BY group_by_expression]
[HAVING search_condition]
[ORDER BY order_expression [ASC | DESC] ]
Q:How under PL/SQL can one redirect sorted (ORDERed BY) results
from SELECT query to another table.
Slawek
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Answer 1

I have asked the question because of the following reason:
I have a large select query that returns rows from a table in
different sort orders depending on user inputs, and I wonder if
there is any way to return just the rows between two specified
positions.
I figured that I'm going to either create one temporary table
with all the data (1000 records for example), sort the data in
the prefered order and use the rownum method to obtain the row
range (works fine under T-SQL). Other way is to try an inline
view that return the rownumber. I can then restrict the numer of
fields, e.g.
select empid, rowNumber from emp,
(select empid as id, rownum as rowNumber from emp) x
where empid = id
and rowNumber between 2 and 5
The problem is that under Oracle the subquery is not allowed to
have an ORDER BY clause (even if it had, rownum reflects row
numbers before they were sorted) and there is no SELECT into
TABLE_NAME.
Michael Malicky (guest) wrote:
: Slawek (guest) wrote:
: : Under MS-SQL (T-SQL) Select statement is defined as follows:
: : SELECT select_list
: : [INTO new_table_]
: : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: : FROM table_source
: : [WHERE search_condition]
: : [GROUP BY group_by_expression]
: : [HAVING search_condition]
: : [ORDER BY order_expression [ASC | DESC] ]
: : Q:How under PL/SQL can one redirect sorted (ORDERed BY)
results
: : from SELECT query to another table.
: : Slawek
: Order by is irrelevant when creating a new table out of a
: query, as the rows are NOT stored in any order in a table.
: The syntax for creating a new table out of an existing one
: is:
: CREATE TABLE new_table AS
: SELECT select_list FROM old_table
: WHERE ...
: etc.
: /mike
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