Question

It seems that a similar question has been asked an solutions exist for other DB products (especially MS-SQL) but they don’t work for sybase so I’m asking this question.

I have a simple select statement and I’d like to get a column containing and incrementing counter along with the results.

eg:

counter  data1  data2
0        aa     AA
1        bb     BB
2        cc     CC

Is there a way to do this in a single statement as opposed to putting it into a temp table and running a cursor over it?

Answer 1

You need as well to create a temp table but you don’t need any cursor, just do it like this:

select counter = identity(10), data1, data2 into #t1 from tablename

select * from #t1
drop table #t1