On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 07:54:30PM -0400, Martin Gainty wrote: > > //Display the top 40 % of rows in BB_DEPARTMENT > > SQL> select ROWNUM,ID FROM EMPLOYEES WHERE ROWNUM < .3*(SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM BB > _DEPARTMENT) GROUP BY ROWNUM,ID; > > ROWNUM > ---------- > 1 > HTH > Martin Gainty That's Oracle, not PostgreSQL. Are you really trying to help here? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general