Diplaying top five employee names taking highest salary

[G.MOHAN REDDY]

I need a quary for which to displaying top 5 salary names from Employee Table
[ February 09, 2004: Message edited by: G.MOHAN REDDY ]

[jyothsna kumari]

hi,
you can sort the table by salary in decending order and can take the first 5 records from that table.
jyothsna

[Ivan Tamayo]

That�s not a JSP Question. Is a SQL question.
With ANSI SQL you cannot make such a query, the best you can hope is select * from employees order by salary and take the first 5 records.
With propietary extensions is possible.

[Ben Dover]

I think "quary" in this case is appropriate.

[Bear Bibeault]

Moving to the JDBC forum.

[Gregg Bolinger]

I took the liberty of removing a couple of posts that bordered on the "Be Nice" rule. The latter of the 2 was a quote of the first.
Not everyone knows where to post what when they first visit Javaranch. That is why we have the ability to move threads. Comments regarding such in any unhelpful way should be kept to yourself. We want everyone on Javaranch to have the best experience possible.
Ivan's got your answer. Go with that.

[Bear Bibeault]

If you aren't concerned with a specific database, some allow you to limit the number of returned results. PostgreSQL for example, sports the LIMIT keyword
(which, with the OFFSET keyword, makes paging through a large resultset trivial).
bear

[Paul Misoni]

If you'd like a more straightforward answer, try..
SELECT NAME, NUMBER
FROM TABLE1 A
WHERE 10 > (SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM TABLE1 B
WHERE A.NUMBER < B.NUMBER)
AND NUMBER IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY NUMBER DESC;

[leo donahue]

Originally posted by G.MOHAN REDDY:
I need a quary for which to displaying top 5 salary names from Employee Table
[ February 09, 2004: Message edited by: G.MOHAN REDDY ]

In MS Access there is a way to do it, also using T-SQL. Try this webpage.

[steve souza]

Depending on the database you are using there may be a simple proprietary solution. For example in Sybase you can do the following.

set rowcount 5
select * from employees order by salary desc

[steve souza]

Sybase allows

set rowcount 5
select * from employees order by salary desc

[supun karunanayake]

jdbc to excel data base connection pls help us sending the information

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Supun,
Welcome to Javaranch. This question has been discussed a bunch of times in the past. Try searching this forum for excel. You will also want to look into ODBC.

Also, I think you hit the reply button instead of the new post button. Just something to be aware of for the future.

[Loren Rosen]

Also, you need to think about how to deal with ties. Some databases have proprietary extensions that will handles ties (often they're documented as "data warehouse" features.

[Amod Bhatia]

Originally posted by Paul Misoni:
If you'd like a more straightforward answer, try..

SELECT NAME, NUMBER
FROM TABLE1 A
WHERE 10 > (SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM TABLE1 B
WHERE A.NUMBER < B.NUMBER)
AND NUMBER IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY NUMBER DESC;

I still not able to get the above query ...can any body pls expalain it with example
it will be gr8 full to me

Thanks

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by Amod Bhatia:

can any body pls expalain it with example
it will be gr8 full to me

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[ June 04, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[stu derby]

I still not able to get the above query

It's a really really slow, naive way of solving the problem; for a table with N rows, that query will take on the order of N**2 operations to produce an answer. In other words, it will work fine for a table with maybe 100 rows, and you will be waiting a long time on a table with 100,000 rows. It also is a query for top 10, when the original question was for top 5.

The problem is that, in plain language, that SQL says:
for every number in the table, count the numbers in the entire table that are greater than the current number, and if there are less than 10 numbers in the entire table that are greater than the current number, include the current number in the result.

It would be far better to simply select the rows in the correct order, and use Statement.setMaxRows() to limit the transfered result.

As earlier posts mention, there are also database-specific ways to have a SQL query limit itself. On the Oracle databse, it would be:

SELECT *
FROM
(SELECT name, number
  FROM table1
  ORDER BY number
)
WHERE rownum < 6

Other database has other ways....