How to select the nth row in a SQL database table? I'm interested in learning some (ideally) database agnostic ways of selecting the nth row from a database table. It would also be interesting to see how this can be achieved using the native functionality of the following databases: SQL Server MySQL PostgreSQL SQLite Oracle I am currently doing something like the following in SQL Server 2005, but I'd be interested in seeing other's more agnostic approaches: WITH Ordered AS ( SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER

Select  where  OR  Condition Is there a way to select data where any one of multiple conditions occur on the same field? Example: I would typically write a statement such as: select * from TABLE where field = 1 or field = 2 or field = 3 Is there a way to instead say something like: select * from TABLE where field = 1 || 2 || 3 Any help is appreciated. Answer: Sure thing, the simplest way is this: select foo from

Select all columns except one in MySQL? I'm trying to use a select statement to get all of the columns from a certain MySQL table except one. Is there a simple way to do this? EDIT: There are 53 columns in this table (NOT MY DESIGN) Answer:  Actually there is a way, you need to have permissions of course for doing this ... SET @sql = CONCAT('SELECT ', (SELECT REPLACE(GROUP_CONCAT(COLUMN_NAME), '<columns_to_omit>,', '') FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME = '<table>' AND TABLE_SCHEMA = '<database>'), '

Select and Update in same time and gets displayed I have this query: SELECT MIN(id),CustomerName, Scenario,StepNo,InTransit,IsAlef,runNo,ResponseLength FROM `RequestInfo` WHERE `CustomerName` = 'Hotstar' AND `ResponseContentType` like '%video/MP2T%' AND `RequestHttpRequest` like '%segment%' ; which gives me output like this:- +---------+--------------+----------+--------+-----------+--------+-------+----------------+----------+ | MIN(id) | CustomerName | Scenario | StepNo | InTransit | IsAlef | runNo | ResponseLength | IsActive | +---------+--------------+----------+--------+-----------+--------+-------+----------------+----------+ | 139 | HotStar | SearchTv | 1 | No | No | 1 | 410098 | NULL | +---------+--------------+----------+--------+-----------+--------+-------+----------------+----------+ I want to insert string