Rownum

I want to know the reason behind the output of both the queries...
1. select * from emp where rownum > 5 ;
Gives output as:
no rows selected
2. select * from emp where rownum < 5 ;
Gives 4 rows from the table .
can anyone help me in that ...
Thanks a lot.............

I want to know the reason behind the output of both
the queries...
1. select * from emp where rownum > 5 ;
Gives output as:
no rows selected
. select * from emp where rownum < 5 ;
Gives 4 rows from the table .In short,
rownum is assigned to the result set of a query.
By saying you want rows where rownum > 5 Oracle comes across the first row of data, says "ok, this row is potentially rownum 1, that doesn't meet the rownum > 5 condition so discard it, let's take the next row.... this next row is now potentially rownum 1, that too doesn't meet the rownum > 5 condition, so discard it, let's take the next row...." and so on in the same vein.
As you can see, Oracle never get's a row to assign a rownum of 1 so it will never get to anything larger than that and all rows will be discarded.
;)

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    100     asas     1
    101 dsds     1
    122     gfgf     1
    154     ytytyt     1
    125     uyuy     1
    153     reree     2
    154     ytytt     2
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    122     gfgf     1
    154     ytytyt     1
    154     ytytt     2
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    Hi muthukumar S,dnikiforv,Vsugur
    Thanks a lot for the analytical function ROW_NUMBER().
    But still have some concern about the query you have given..
    Let me first run the inner query.
    SQL>
    SQL > Select e.*,row_number() over(partition by Emp_Type order by Emp_Type) rno from
    EMP e where Emp_Type in (1, 2 ) order by Emp_Type;
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    101 dsds 1 2
    122 gfgf 1 3
    125 aaa 1 4
    100 asas 1 5
    700 gfghf 2 1
    600 trtrtr 2 2
    153 reree 2 3
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    122 gfgf 1 3
    600 trtrtr 2 2
    153 reree 2 3
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    EMP e where Emp_Type in (1, 2 ) order by Emp_Type)
    where rno between 2 and 3;
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    154 aaa 1 3
    600 trtrtr 2 2
    700 gfghf 2 3
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    (select Real_Qry.*,row_number() over(partition by emp_type order by emp_type)rno
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    3 122 gfgf 1 3
    2 600 trtrtr 2 2
    3 153 reree 2 3
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    Ben

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    Hi,
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      select rownum as rnm, ID, NAME, GEOMETRY
        from MY_TABLE
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    LOCATION_ID NUMBER(4)
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    2 7499
    3 7521
    4 7566
    5 7654
    6 7698
    7 7782
    8 7788
    9 7839
    10 7844
    11 7876
    ROWNUM EMPNO
    12 7900
    13 7902
    14 7934
    14 rows selected.
    SQL> select * from (select rownum rn, empno from emp) where rn > 2 and rn < 5;
    RN EMPNO
    3 7521
    4 7566

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    Michael Allen
    [email protected]

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