Limit nbr of rows in a query

Dears,
I found 2 solutions to limit the number of rows a query can return:
- the first one is making use of a condition in the query itself based on RCOUNT
- a second one is setting the parameter ResultRowLimit in the instanceconfig file.
Now I was wondering how this works. Suppose that I want to limit my result set to the first 100 rows before retrieving the whole report.
Making use of the condition it's clear...an extra where-clause is added that will limit the number of rows retrieve.
But what with the ResultRowLimit parameter. Is the query retrieving all rows and only shows the first 100? Or is the execution of the query really restricted to the first 100 rows?
Can anyone explain me once?
Txs!!
PS if someone knows another solution to limit the query result, just let me know ;-)
Edited by: ADB on 6-jul-2009 8:07

Try using Analytic function row_number().
Regards
RK

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