Sorry for the messy layout question. This is my first post.
I have the following table structure under ORACLE database
List item
Row A B Date
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1 X X 01-2012
2 X X 01-2013
3 Null Null 01-2013
4 New Apple 01-2016
5 New Orange 08-2015
6 Null Null 09-2015
I want to be able to query for the first time that "New" is in the database entry and get the value for both A
, B
and Date
Tried using syntax first_row but i get an invalid identifier result. Also attempted to create subqueries to limit and group by 'New' data but the issue I'm having is to only look at the "first" ever row per Date
Best Answer
Due to the bad naming convention on your question, I will use ColumnA as A, ColumnB as B and ColumnDate as Date.
I am assuming that you require the first item as it's fetched from storage, no particular order. And you have to know that if the row gets updated it can be migrated from the current block and so, the query result will eventually change.
This queries are examples only and you have to edit them to get exactly what you want.
You may try the following query:
In Oracle every result set have an implicit row number that you can use for limiting output.
If, by any chance, you're using oracle 12c you can use the brand new feature for top n queries
I hope this helps!