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  3. July 2002

Re: RE: No order by in a subselect

Rob, how about this:

INSERT INTO DIRBIG
(SELECT IFSLDIR, IFSLOBJ, IFSLSIZ, CURRENT DATE FROM IFSLIST)
ORDER BY IFSLSIZ DESC
FETCH FIRST 20 ROWS ONLY

midrange-l@midrange.com writes:
>Thanks for the try Gord, but from STRSQL:
>
>With TEMP AS (SELECT IFSLDIR,IFSLOBJ,IFSLSIZ,CURRENT DATE
>       FROM IFSLIST
>       ORDER BY IFSLSIZ DESC
>       FETCH FIRST 20 ROWS ONLY)
>Insert into dirbig (Select * from TEMP)
>Keyword ORDER not expected. Valid tokens: ).
>
>Rob Berendt


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