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Displaying the Row Number in a SELECT Query

Question: How can I display the row number in the results of a SELECT query? For example: Select empname from employees where city = “toronto” I would like to show

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adding records but not using primary key

Question: Is there any other way apart from using the INSERT INTO command that allows you to append a line to a database? I have a primary key “ID,” but

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SQL order by count

Question: I need to know how to order by the count of the selected field. For example: Select xxx count(xxx)from prod-tableorder by xxxI’d like to order/rank field xxx highest to

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query

Question: I have a table like this: name cat1 cat2—- —— —–A 1 orangeA 1 orangeB 1 appleB 1 appleB 1 appleC 2 bananaC 2 bananaC 2 bananaC 2 banana

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using COUNT and GROUP BY with zero-values

Question: I’m trying to query our Human Resources database to find the number of temporary employees in each department. I’m using the following SQL statement: select count (*)from employeewhere status

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Creating Flexible Reports

Question: I have a problem making reports flexible. Let us assume we have a standard report, but it changes according to the situation. How can I allow users to change

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DataWindow Print Single Page?

Question: Can I print only one page in datawindow? Answer: Yes, you can set the print range of a datawindow, just like in Word or Excel. If you set the

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Sorting

Question: I have a select query “Select * from Table where ID in (8, 2,3,78,32,1,7)” that I want returned in the same order that the IDs are in in the