Sidewaystable with non-sideways caption

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I am using the sidewaystable to display a rather long table sideways on a new page. The table is not so wide that it fills the long side of the paper but it has too many rows to fit the short side -- that is if the caption is added.
So I was wondering if there is a way to display the caption non-sideways and the table sideways? In this way the page would be completely filled.
I guess it is not 100% standard procedure but I do not think it would be a big problem.

Zarko · Answer

A possible solution with use rotating package and environment sideways:
documentclass[11pt,leqno]{article}
usepackage{mathtools}
usepackage{rotating}
usepackage{booktabs, tabularx}
usepackage[skip=1ex]{caption}

%---------------- Show page layout. Don't use in a real document!
usepackage{showframe}
renewcommandShowFrameLinethickness{0.15pt}
renewcommand*ShowFrameColor{color{red}}
%---------------------------------------------------------------%
usepackage{lipsum}% For dummy text. Don't use in a real document

begin{document}
    begin{table}[htb]
    centering    % if you like to have table (vertically) centered
    caption{My wide table}
begin{sideways}
    begin{tabularx}{0.91textheight}{c X}
    toprule
No. &   column header   
    midrule
1   &   lipsum[66]     
   midrule
2   &   lipsum[66]     
    bottomrule
    end{tabularx}
end{sideways}
    end{table}
end{document}

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