Re: SQL Question
Posted in 1998
Arun Shastry — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
The simplest I can think of is:
create temp table foo(seq serial, <columns>);
insert into foo(<columns>)select <stuff>;
<columns> is everything you want in your select, without the row numbers.
Hope that helps,
Arun
js wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to get a result set in which the row
> number is a column in the result set. For example, if I select n rows
> from a table, I need a column to contain 1 thru n. Optimally, the
> syntax needs to be ANSI standard SQL, but nearly any solution will do.
> Anyone have ideas?
>
> TIA
> JS