If you don't order your data but specified a LIMIT clause, what are the records returned ?
24 Aug 2005 17:26:27 +0200, Harald Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Praveen KS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can anyone help with a query to retrieve latest N records. > > No auto_increment field. > > No date field. > > Primary key exists and is populated with random unique values. > > This means that the only possible definition for "latest" is "highest slno". > Translated to SQL: > > SELECT slno, name > FROM tbl > ORDER BY slno DESC > LIMIT <N> > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Pooly Webzine Rock : http://www.w-fenec.org/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
