One of Oracle 12c's coolest features was the introduction of the SQL standard OFFSET .. FETCH clause, as we can now write things like: SELECT * FROM film ORDER BY film_id FETCH FIRST 1 ROW ONLY This is querying the Sakila database. Most other databases had this clause (or a non-standard version of it) for … Continue reading Oracle’s OFFSET .. FETCH Can be Slower than Classic ROWNUM Filtering