Thanks for the reply. The main aim is to select the first record or the last record. Is there any direct command for these. Please help me in this.
There is no first or last unless there is a sort order.
To get the first row:
select * from table order by col1 limit 1
...and to get the last row:
select * from table order by col1 DESC limit 1
DESC in this case means descending, the default for ORDER BY is ASC, wich is short for ascending.
LIMIT 1 is used to limit the result to only one row.
-- Roger
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