2 very basic sql questions (I hope)

Question

Hi;
This is for the ADO.NET 2.0 MS Oracle driver. Is there a standard way to do either of the following:
Sql Server has the concept of getting the first N of a select only using:
select top 1 * from Schedule where deleted = 0 order by runNext
Does Oracle have this and if so, what is the syntax please?
Sql Server has the ability to return the value of an auto-generated primary key in the insert statement. In C# it goes like this:
cmd.CommandText = "insert into Schedule (sTitle, sDescription) values ('my sched', 'all about it')";
cmd.CommandText += "; select scope_identity()";
object rtn = cmd.ExecuteScalar();
return (long)(decimal)rtn;
Is there a way to do this in Oracle and if so, how?
thanks - dave

Answer 1

1)
select *
  from (select *
          from schedule
         where deleted = 0
         order by runNext)
where rownum = 1;2)
insert into Schedule (sTitle, sDescription)
  values ('my sched', 'all about it')
  returning pk_column_name into v_some_variable;Or, if the auto-generated value comes from a sequence, you can, after the insert:
select my_sequence.currval from dual;