Re: help on SQL

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Kenneth Suralta wrote:

>
> hello everyone,
>
> is it possible to get every other row in the table?
> like for example:
> data
> -----
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> 7
SELECT t.fields FROM table t WHERE data NOT IN (SELECT t2.data FROM table
t2 WHERE some_whereclause);

it will select these rows which ones are not in the subquery. but you can
do it simply by getting the negate of the whereclause...
>
> Is it possible to have this result (interval of 3)?
>
> result
> ------
> 1
> 4
> 7
i don't see what you mean. please describe it.
>
> thanks,
> kenneth
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