Need to limit number of rows returned by a query

Hi. Is there a way to limit the rowsets returned to me in a query? I need to get the first 100, then the next hundred, etc until there are no more rows left to retrieve. Someone told me that I should use a cursor to do this. Does anyone have a specific example? Can this be done with a combination of SQL/JDBC?
Thanks in advance...bbetta
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if you are talking about limiting the number of rows to be returned to the calling program to a managable number of rowa ...
for example the result set size would be 5000 rows and you want to get them in batches of 50 or 100 ..
see the attached link :
JDBC Code Templates
http://technet.oracle.com/sample_code/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/htdocs/templates.htm#BatchSize
if you want the server side transaction to only return the first 50 or 100 rows even though the result set has more ... then
another approach is required -- possibly as suggested above ...

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