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Hi,

Motivation example:
I have a table containing "persons". A person tuble is (id,name,value).
I need to return the 10 riches (as in, "most valueable") persons. Atm. im
using the following query:


Then I use a for(i=1;i<=10;i++) loop. I get the wanted result, but my problem is
that this will be pretty ineffective if I have 100000000 records in my DB.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Please note, that I do not have any other tables in my DB. I thought about
making a table "rank" containing a "rank" and the value.. the problem is,
that with this solution I have to sort the table everytime I update a persons
value.

Edit: The persons value will be updated more often, than one wants to get
the top 10.

Thanks in advance.

/Svend Rost
[ May 02, 2005: Message edited by: Svend Rost ]
 
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Hello,

to those who might be interested you can get the top N records with the
following SQL queries:


The above works for Access and MS SQL Server

and

works for MySQL.

/Svend Rost
 
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In sybase ASE and ASA you can do the following:

 
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