I am using dbi:odbc and I am trying to grab 11 rows out of my Data Base. I want these eleven rows to be newer than a certian DATE and TIME. But if there are 20 rows newer than the date and time I state, I want to get the oldest 11 rows, ordered by DATE and TIME. I have done this with ASP by using a TOP statement inside a nested select statement together (ordering the nested select asc and the outside select by desc), but I was unable to get this to work in my perl code. I was wondering if there is a way to grab 11 rows, the way I want to (without ordering them by DATE and TIME asc ), because there could be cases when there will be less than 11 rows returned. 
use dbi;
  my $dbh, $sth;
  my ($sport, $import) = @_;
  my ($path) = "d:/text/time/" . $sport . ".txt";
  open (text, "$path") or die "couldn't open!\n";
  my (@text) = <text>;
  my $d = $text[0];
  my $t = $text[1];
  my $a = $text[2];
  
  $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:burlee","spacecitysports","houston34")
+ or die die "Can't open connection\n";
  $sth = $dbh->prepare("select *
      from DATA_DB_ENTRY__ASTROS_STAGING
      where TS_DATE  >= '" . $d . "'
      and IMPORTACE = '" . $import . "'
      order by TS_DATE asc, TS_TIME asc
      ");
  $sth->execute();

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this is an example of how I was able to get the info queried out but I can not use this if there is less than 11 rows returned.

In reply to Querying Select Number of Rows by Perl Newby

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