Oracle/SQL - Select specified range of sequential records

Question

I'm tryint to select a subset of records, 5000 through 10000 from a join. I've gotten queries like this to work in the past, but they were slightly less complex. Here is the query I'm trying to use and if I remove the rownum/rnum references (and therefore the outer select) I receive all my records as expected so I know that logic is good.

SELECT      * 
    FROM    ( 
            SELECT  unique cl.riid_, 
                    rownum as rnum 
            FROM    <table 1> cl, <table 3> mil 
            WHERE   cl.opt = 0 AND 
                    (cl.st_ != 'QT' OR cl.st_ IS NULL) AND 
                    cl.hh = 0 AND 
                    cl._ID_ = mil._ID_ AND 
                    mil.TYPE in (0, 1, 2, 3, 4) AND 
                    EXISTS 
                        ( SELECT    'x' 
                            FROM    <table 2> sub 
                            WHERE   cl.ea_ = lower(sub.ea_) AND 
                                    sub.status = 0 AND 
                                    lower(sub.subscription) = 'partner' 
                        ) AND 
                    rownum <= 10000 
            ) 
    where   rnum > 5000

So when I run this query I receive this message from our system (this is not an Oracle cli interface, but rather a web layer that exists over the top of it so please bare with the error msg if it's out of the ordinary)

'Error: The resource selected for viewing is invalid. You may need to re-create or fix the object before viewing its data.'

The resource would be the results of the query.

So does anyone have an idea of whats going on or a better way to do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I believe you're looking for something like this in Oracle:

select * 
  from ( select a.*, rownum rnum
           from ( YOUR_QUERY_GOES_HERE -- including the order by ) a
          where rownum <= MAX_ROWS )
 where rnum >= MIN_ROWS
/

Good discussion from Ask Tom is here