SQL Select Question

[Boxwar]

Hello,

Another question, which probably would be very simple.
How can I Select the record which is one before the last record ?

[Doranj00]

You need to be more explicit with what you are trying to accomplish. Tables have a natural record order, Oracle has rownum and rowid but MS SQL does not.

Look at this article:


Q186133 INF: How to Dynamically Number Rows in a Select Statement

http://support.microso ft.com/default.aspx?sc id=KB;EN-US;q186133

[Boxwar]

That article is interesting, thank you.
I am trying to select the last 20 records of my table, but each of them has to be selected separately. How can i do this ?
I am using SQL Server 2000. My table consists of a primary key and the rest are normal columns. The primary key is numeric and the table is sorted on that column.
I am not sure what to add else, if there is anything you need to know, please ask.

[Paru]

Firstly create a Temporary table & insert all values from Existing table into Temporary table.Then create a cursor & Fetch the second last record from table.



create table #temp(sal int,name varchar(10))

declare cursor_sample cursor scroll for
select Emp_Salary from Employee_tbl where Emp_Salary>6000

open cursor_sample

declare @sal int
declare @name varchar(50)

Fetch Absolute -2 from cursor_sample into @sal
print @sal

begin
select @sal=Emp_Salary ,@name=Emp_Name from Employee_tbl where Emp_Salary=@sal
insert into #temp values(@sal,@na me)

end

deallocate cursor_sample

select * from #temp

truncate table #temp