[b]Examples[/b]
For each department in the sample table oe.employees, the following example assigns numbers to each row in order of employee's hire date:
DEPARTMENT_ID LAST_NAME EMPLOYEE_ID EMP_ID
------------- ------------------------- ----------- ----------
10 Whalen 200 1
20 Hartstein 201 1
20 Fay 202 2
30 Raphaely 114 1
30 Khoo 115 2
30 Baida 116 3
30 Tobias 117 4
30 Himuro 118 5
30 Colmenares 119 6
40 Mavris 203 1
. . .
100 Popp 113 6
110 Higgins 205 1
110 Gietz 206 2
ROW_NUMBER is a nondeterministic function. However, employee_id is a unique key, so the results of this application of the function are deterministic.
For each department in the sample table oe.employees, the following example assigns numbers to each row in order of employee's hire date:
SELECT department_id, last_name, employee_id, ROW_NUMBER()
OVER (PARTITION BY department_id ORDER BY employee_id) AS emp_id
FROM employees;
DEPARTMENT_ID LAST_NAME EMPLOYEE_ID EMP_ID
------------- ------------------------- ----------- ----------
10 Whalen 200 1
20 Hartstein 201 1
20 Fay 202 2
30 Raphaely 114 1
30 Khoo 115 2
30 Baida 116 3
30 Tobias 117 4
30 Himuro 118 5
30 Colmenares 119 6
40 Mavris 203 1
. . .
100 Popp 113 6
110 Higgins 205 1
110 Gietz 206 2
ROW_NUMBER is a nondeterministic function. However, employee_id is a unique key, so the results of this application of the function are deterministic.