hum, I think it won't acheive his goal:) Let's say you have this as data: ____________________________ | id | date | whatever | |----------------------------| | 1 | 2001-11-26 | | | 2 | 2001-11-27 | | | 3 | 2001-11-25 | | | 4 | 2001-11-27 | | | 5 | 2001-11-26 | | | 6 | 2001-11-26 | | | 7 | 2001-11-25 | | | 8 | 2001-11-26 | | | 9 | 2001-11-27 | | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ
he wants to have the data for the two last dates. so it would be in that case: | id | date | whatever | |----------------------------| | 2 | 2001-11-27 | | | 4 | 2001-11-27 | | | 9 | 2001-11-27 | | | 1 | 2001-11-26 | | | 5 | 2001-11-26 | | | 6 | 2001-11-26 | | | 8 | 2001-11-26 | | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ means all invoices from the two last days where there are incvoices. I don't think he want's to use date sub from NOW() sine the two last invoice dates might be variable.. Etienne Michael Stassen wrote: > > Tom, > > Restating the problem, you want the last two from the set ordered by > invoice date. So, add > > ORDER BY site_service.invoice_date DESC > LIMIT 2; > > Probably just a typo, but I note your statement selects site_service.id > and site.site_id but has site_service.site_id = site.id in the WHERE > clause. > > Michael > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Tom Beidler wrote: > > > I'm trying to write a query that will limit the results but not by the total > > amount returned like a normal LIMIT. It's an invoice database and I would > > like to return the last two invoices for a certain job. So if there are 100 > > jobs with several invoice dates I would like to return a web page displaying > > a table of invoice dates ordered by job name and LIMIT the invoice dates to > > the last two invoice dates for each job. Here's my query so far; > > > > SELECT site_service.id, site_service.service_date, > > site_service.invoice_date, site.site_id, site.name, site.state, site.status > > FROM site_service, site WHERE site_service.site_id = site.id AND > > site.company = 'Nextel' > > > > If I add LIMIT 2, I only get two invoices. I'm trying to get the last to > > invoices for each site. > > > > Is this possible or is there another direction I should go? I checked out > > the MySQL site without any luck. > > > > Thanks, > > Tom > > > > Michael Stassen > University Information Technology Services > Indiana University Bloomington > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php -- Etienne Marcotte Specifications Management - Quality Control Imperial Tobacco Ltd. - Montreal (Qc) Canada 514.932.6161 x.4001 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
