Hi, all. A late entry on this topic. I didn't know about the SQL method, which is pretty nifty. I would have offered the (perhaps slower?) CF method, using maxrows in the CFQUERY tag:
<cfquery name="getWriter" datasource="survivorsmiles" maxrows="10"> select ID, firstname, lastname, email from reg where id = #getStories.writer_Id# order by ID desc </cfquery> Matthieu -----Original Message----- From: Tony Weeg [mailto:tony@;navtrak.net] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SQL OT: selecting bottom most 10 records thanks. thats the answer i was lookin fer ;) later and g'night gents, this old dog is beat. tw -----Original Message----- From: Mark A. Kruger - CFG [mailto:mkruger@;cfwebtools.com] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SQL OT: selecting bottom most 10 records tony - remember the ORDER BY is the controlling execution component in the query and it's executed before the TOP n are selected. If you order ASC and your values are 1,2,3,4,5 you get 1,2,3,4,5 order - selecting the TOP will start at "1". If you order desc you will get the order of 5,4,3,2,1 - selecting TOP in this case will give you values starting at 5. Change your query to: <cfquery name="getWriter" datasource="survivorsmiles"> select TOP 10 (ID), firstname, lastname, email from reg where id = #getStories.writer_Id# order by ID DESC </cfquery> goooood luck... -----Original Message----- From: Tony Weeg [mailto:tony@;navtrak.net] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: SQL OT: selecting bottom most 10 records brain fartage....never had to make this work... i only want to select the bottom most ten records based on a primary key ID field..... <cfquery name="getWriter" datasource="survivorsmiles"> select TOP 10 (ID), firstname, lastname, email from reg where id = #getStories.writer_Id# order by ID asc </cfquery> aint cuttin it? why...cause it doesnt make any sense....just trying to give you an idea of the field i need and hoping that somehow i can do this :) please help. thanks tony tony weeg [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.revolutionwebdesign.com rEvOlUtIoN wEb DeSiGn 410.334.6331 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm