Ever since Oracle closed on its acquisition of MySQL, the open-source world has been wondering where the code has gone. Many people searched, fruitlessly, for the formerly available MySQL source code. They might have done better to search for Oracle’s point person on MySQL, Ken Jacobs. On Friday, Jacobs announced his resignation from Oracle to [...]
We already discussed the methods to use TOP functions in MySQL and in MSSQL. In Oracle we make use of the ROWNUM function in the WHERE clause. To take our names table again in this example, to get the first 5 rows, make use of the following query: SELECT firstname,lastname FROM names WHERE ROWNUM <= [...]