Display first 25 entries.

Question

Hi,
Do anyone know how to display the first 25entries and 26-50 entries.
Example,
Select employees.* from employees where employees.department="admin" by order of employees.name asc
In the above sql, it will return all entries in the database who work in admin department. Lets say i want to display only the first 25 entries in the order of the name in ascending. How can i do it.. Thanks
becks

Answer 1

You need to order by explicitly over the result set. The order by within the analytical function does not gurantee order!!
for example, this
select * from (select e.*,row_number() over (order by name) rn from employee e where e.department='ADMIN') where rn<=25should be this:
select *
from (select e.*,row_number() over (order by name) rn
        from employee e where e.department='ADMIN'
        order by name
where rn<=25P;