Re: Return 30% of results?

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 07:54:30PM -0400, Martin Gainty wrote:
>
> //Display the top 40 % of rows in BB_DEPARTMENT
>
> SQL> select ROWNUM,ID FROM EMPLOYEES WHERE ROWNUM < .3*(SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM BB
> _DEPARTMENT) GROUP BY ROWNUM,ID;
>
>     ROWNUM
> ----------
>          1
> HTH
> Martin Gainty

That's Oracle, not PostgreSQL.  Are you really trying to help here?

Cheers,
David.
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