On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:35:52PM -0600, Mat Murdock wrote:
>    If I understand the manual correctly when I do a  "select blah from blah where 
>blah = blah order by blah limit 10"  Mysql finds the first 10 matching records and 
>then sorts those records.  How do I have it first sort the database and then take the 
>first 10 records?
> 

LIMIT is applied after sorting.  It does what you want already.

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