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 Posted - 2004-12-06 : 08:32:00
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| Thu writes "Hi.I read this topic :http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=566and i did it, but i have one proble. please help meWhen i have a big table (5000 records), i want to select some records which between a..d. For example, i want to select 30 students which have the posision from 500 to 550. I used the select command : Select top 550 * from st_table where id not in (select top 500 id from st_table order by poss desc) order by poss descIt's OK, but it take along time to do that and sometime it cannot display result.Please help me ???????" |
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Posted - 2004-12-06 : 08:41:41
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| shouldn't that beSelect top 30 * from st_table where id not in (select top 500 id from st_table order by poss desc) order by poss desctrySelect top 30 * from (select top 530 * from st_table order by poss desc) a order by poss==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.DTS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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