Oracle: Display row number with 'order by' clause

Question

I wonder how could i print a row number for sql statement where is using order. Currently i tried ROWNUM but as i understand it works only for unsorted result set.

Answer 1

rownum is applied before ordering, so you have to rewrite your query like this: select rownum, xxx.* from ( SELECT a.lg_id, a.full_name, a.sort_order FROM activity_type_lang a where a.lg_id = 'en' order by a.full_name ) xxx;