How will you get 1 and 3rd and 5th records in table? What is the query in oracle?

Question

I have an employee table with 20 records. The columns are employee name and salary. How can I get the details of employees with ranks between 5 and 10 on the basis of decreasing order of their salaries?

I am thinking of passing the table through a sorter to arrange the data in decreasing order of salaries, and then Sequence Generator Transformation giving unique id to the rows and finally a filter to select where the id is between 5 and 10. I realise this isn't an elegant solution? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks for your time

Answer 1

Select * from (select rownum as rn, emp.* from emp) where rn in (1,3,5);