YES! Oracle's "ROWNUM" is such a thing, and it works better than having
nothing at all.
=:o)

Have fun,
Paulo Gaspar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: alex_vnru@... [mailto:alex_vnru@...]
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 6:48 PM
> To: IBDI@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IBDI] Re: Subsets
>
>
> Hi, David, it's Peter, not Markus, you see? :)
> Personally I have a zero interest in Limit and don't like an idea to
> cripple RDBMS for particular class of applications needs, but I can
> understand web programmers. I have an idea: if FB can support for
> every fetched row simply calculated (from server's position) field
> (like in dataset within application), and it is not complicated task
> for you, then they can handle it with between like any general column
> - for application it will be "data". Forgive me if it is idea of
> ignoramus.
>
> Best regards.
>
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