From: "Ashley M. Kirchner" > Jigal van Hemert wrote: > > >You can cheat a bit and use a UNION of one SELECT: > > > >(SELECT field1,field2,field3 FROM table ORDER BY field3 ASC LIMIT 2) ORDER > >BY field3 DESC; > > > This didn't work as expected.
Very odd! These are my results on MySQL 4.0.21 using InnoDB tables (it was suitable data for this test, InnoDB was used for other reasons): SELECT `msg_id` , `from_accountid` , `sent` FROM `msg_content` ORDER BY `sent` DESC LIMIT 5 msg_id from_accountid sent 48469 30328 2004-11-24 03:14:49 48468 16788 2004-11-24 03:06:47 48467 22935 2004-11-24 02:49:49 48466 18115 2004-11-24 02:46:45 48465 27356 2004-11-24 02:29:23 (SELECT `msg_id` , `from_accountid` , `sent` FROM `msg_content` ORDER BY `sent` DESC LIMIT 5 ) ORDER BY `sent` ASC msg_id from_accountid sent 48465 27356 2004-11-24 02:29:23 48466 18115 2004-11-24 02:46:45 48467 22935 2004-11-24 02:49:49 48468 16788 2004-11-24 03:06:47 48469 30328 2004-11-24 03:14:49 This works exactly as expected.... Regards, Jigal. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
