Andreas Kretschmer wrote:
> Can you show an example for 8.4?
It's not 100% certain that it will be possible for 8.4, probably though.
select row_number() over (order by employeeid) as nrow,* from employee order
by employeeid
It's important to have both the order bys
There is more information on windowing functions here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELECT
David.