Posted by KrunoG on 09/19/06 07:33

"Andy Hassall" <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote in message
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> You mentioned "1st" which implies ordering, so order in a subquery, and
use
> "rownum <= 10000" in the outer query to get only that many rows.
>
> Or you've also mentioned sampling; Oracle has a "sample" clause that you
can
> use to get a percentage of the data:
>
>
>
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/statements_10002.htm#i2065953
>
> --
> Andy Hassall :: andy@andyh.co.uk :: http://www.andyh.co.uk
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I've tried this but It's not working
ORDER BY dbms_random.valuerownum <= 10000

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