Getting first 10 data after rearranging

Question

I have a table for comments history. I need to select only ten data after rearranging the data (order by clause) based on date (newer to older). May I know how to achieve that? Is that can be done using rownum?

Answer 1

SELECT  *
FROM    (
        SELECT  *
        FROM    comment
        ORDER BY
                comment_date DESC
        )
WHERE   rownum <= 10