Well, if you happen to be using Sql Server you can do that sort of thing in T-Sql. In Oracle, you can also accomplish the same thing using pl/sql. Either way i'd do it in a stored procedure.<BR ...

For example, type:select * from example_data where ROWNUM = (select max (ROWNUM) from example_data) Type "; " to run the SQL query.Oracle returns the largest row number appended to the database.

The EXECUTE statement sends dynamic non-query, DBMS-specific SQL statements to the DBMS and processes those statements. In some SAS/ACCESS interfaces, you can issue an EXECUTE statement directly ...