progress-4gl

It's a common thing in most SQL implementations to be able to select a "sliding window" subset of all the rows returned in a query. A common use case for this is pagination. For example, say I have a search page with 10 results on each page. For implementations that support LIMIT and OFFSET keywords, the query used to return results for each page would be as follows: page one would use SELECT ... LIMIT 10 OFFSET 0 , page 2 would use SELECT ... LIMIT 10 OFFSET 10 , page 3 would use SELECT ... LIMIT 10 OFFSET 20 , etc. (note that the OFFSET takes effect before the LIMIT ). Anyway, I'm trying to

How can I get a limited number of records from the table in Progress OpenEdge database? Something like in SQL: SELECT TOP 100 * FROM MyTable The only ugly solution I can find is looping through all records and breaking when 100 of them were displayed. But feels like there should be some better way of doing it. If you are using the 4GL you might also want to look at using OPEN QUERY and MAX-ROWS to achieve the result that you are looking for. The following shows a traditional FOR EACH loop with a counter and then a QUERY with MAX-ROWS: define variable i as integer no-undo. define frame a with