RE: first row of database

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robbie Staufer [mailto:rstaufer@scd.ucar.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:22 PM
> To: beginners@perl.org
> Subject: first row of database
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to refer to the first row of a database (row 0?) ?
> 
> For example, the first row of my database contains header information.
> I want the header row to print out first whenever data is 
> requested, so
> the output file looks like this:
> 
> header,  header, header, header, header
> data, data, data, data, data,
> data, data, data, date, data
> 
> I know how to print out the data, but can't figure out how to ask for
> the first row.

What kind of "database" are you talking about? If you're talking about a SQL
database like Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc., then strictly speaking,
there's no such thing as a "first row".

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