Using ROWNUM in Oracle
ROWNUM
is an Oracle pseudo column which numbers the rows in a result set.
SELECT rownum, table_name
FROM user_tables;ROWNUM TABLE_NAME
------------- -----------------
1 EMP
2 DEPT
3 BONUS
4 SALGRADE
5 DUMMY5 rows selected
Here is a summary of how ROWNUM
can be used.
LIMITING ROWS
ROWNUM
can be used to limit the number of rows returned by a query in a similar way to LIMIT
in Postgres and MySql, TOP
in SQL Server and FETCH FIRST
in DB2.
SELECT rownum, table_name
FROM user_tables
WHERE rownum <=3;ROWNUM TABLE_NAME
------------- -----------------
1 EMP
2 DEPT
3 BONUS3 rows selected
ROWNUM WITH DML
The use of ROWNUM
is not restricted to select statements. It can be used with DML statements that update the database too.
CREATE TABLE o AS
SELECT *
FROM all_objects
WHERE rownum <= 1000;Table createdUPDATE o
SET object_id = rownum,
created = created + INTERVAL '1' MINUTE * rownum
WHERE rownum <= 100;100 rows updatedDELETE FROM o
WHERE OWNER = 'SYS'
AND rownum = 1;1 rows deleted
ROWNUM
is particularly useful, when used in conjunction with the CONNECT BY LEVEL
clause, for creating arbitrary rows in the database. See the article ongenerating rows in Oraclefor more details.
OFFSETTING ROWS
Rows can also be skipped at the beginning of a result set using ROWNUM
.
SELECT rnum, table_name
FROM
(SELECT rownum rnum, table_name
FROM user_tables)
WHERE rnum > 2;RNUM TABLE_NAME
-------- ----------------
3 SALGRADE
4 DUMMY
5 DEPT3 rows selected
You will notice that an inline view has been introduced to transform the ROWNUM
pseudo column into a 'real' column before we do the comparison.
It is tempting to write the above SQL as follows.
SELECT table_name
FROM user_tables
WHERE rownum > 2;TABLE_NAME
------------------------------0 rows selected
However, this query will always return zero rows, regardless of the number of rows in the table.
To explain this behaviour, we need to understand how Oracle processes ROWNUM
. When assigning ROWNUM
to a row, Oracle starts at 1 and only only increments the value when a row is selected; that is, when all conditions in the WHERE clause are met. Since our condition requires that ROWNUM
is greater than 2, no rows are selected and ROWNUM
is never incremented beyond 1.
The bottom line is that conditions such as the following will work as expected.
.. WHERE rownum = 1;
.. WHERE rownum <= 10;
While queries with these conditions will always return zero rows.
.. WHERE rownum = 2;
.. WHERE rownum > 10;
TOP-N QUERY
Typically, a top-n query sorts data into the required sequence and then limits the output to a subset of rows.
For example, suppose we wish to retrieve the top three earners from our employee table.
SELECT ename, sal
FROM (
SELECT ename, sal
FROM emp
ORDER BY sal DESC)
WHERE rownum <=3;ENAME SAL
---------- ---------
KING 5000
SCOTT 3000
FORD 30003 rows selected
The inline view (the inner select) sorts the rows and passes the result up to the outer select. The outer select then limits the output to three rows.
It may seem more natural to use the following SQL.
SELECT ename, sal
FROM emp
WHERE rownum <=3
ORDER BY sal DESC;ENAME SAL
---------- ----------------------
ALLEN 1600
WARD 1250
SMITH 8003 rows selected
However, this does not give us the result we want because Oracle assigns theROWNUM
values to the rows before it does the sort.
In this example, Oracle will retrieve three rows from the table, any three rows, and sort only these three rows. We really need Oracle to sort all the rows and then return the first three. The inline view will ensure that this will happen.
SORT PERFORMANCE
Limiting rows on a sorted result set using ROWNUM
can also provide an added performance benefit. Rather than physically sorting all the rows to retrieve just the top few, Oracle maintains an array which contains just the highest or the lowest values (depending on whether we specified ASC or DESC in the ORDER BY clause). The size of the array will be the number of rows we wish to return. As rows are processed, only the highest (or lowest) values are retained in the array. All other rows are discarded.
PAGINATION
Next, we will see how ROWNUM
is used to select a range of rows from within a result set. This is useful if we are to provide pagination on a web screen, for example.
Suppose we are paging through the employee table in name order and we wish to display rows six to ten inclusive.
SELECT rnum, ename, job
FROM
(SELECT /*+ FIRST_ROWS(10) */ rownum rnum, ename, job
FROM
(SELECT ename, job
FROM emp
ORDER BY ename)
WHERE rownum <= 10
)
WHERE rnum > 5;RNUM ENAME JOB
-------- ---------- ---------
6 JAMES CLERK
7 JONES MANAGER
8 KING PRESIDENT
9 MARTIN SALESMAN
10 MILLER CLERK5 rows selected
We use nested inline views to retrieve and sort the data and then apply the range check using ROWNUM
. We have split the upper and lower bound check, which allows Oracle to use COUNT(STOPKEY)
in the execution plan when checking forROWNUM <= 10
. This is a performance optimization which, along with the sorting optimization described earlier, will ensure that our query runs efficiently as the table grows.
The FIRST_ROWS(n)
hint also tells Oracle to optimize the query so that the first n rows are returned as quickly as possible.
SUMMARY
ROWNUM
provides a mechanism for returning a subset or range of rows from a query. It can be misleading at first if not properly understood but, once mastered, is invaluable for limiting result set output for pagination and top-n style queries.
For more information on ROWNUM
, see Tom Kytes articleon OTN.
摘自:http://blog.lishman.com/2008/03/rownum.html
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