1.在ORACLE中实现SELECT TOP N 由于ORACLE不支持SELECT TOP语句，所以在ORACLE中经常是用ORDER BY跟ROWNUM的组合来实现SELECT TOP N的查询。

简单地说，实现方法如下所示：

SELECT　列名１．．．列名ｎ　FROM

(SELECT　列名１．．．列名ｎ　FROM 表名 ORDER BY 列名１．．．列名ｎ)

WHERE ROWNUM <= N（抽出记录数）

ORDER BY ROWNUM ASC

下面举个例子简单说明一下。

顾客表customer(id,name)有如下数据：

ID NAME

01 first

02 Second

03 third

04 forth

05 fifth

06 sixth

07 seventh

08 eighth

09 ninth

10 tenth

11 last

则按NAME的字母顺抽出前三个顾客的SQL语句如下所示：

SELECT * FROM

(SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER ORDER BY NAME)

WHERE ROWNUM <= 3

ORDER BY ROWNUM ASC

输出结果为：

ID NAME

08 eighth

05 fifth

01 first