Correct.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "DL Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Richard Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Christopher Thompson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: extra max() function possibly very useful?
> LIMIT to be applied to each group result, instead of to the final
> resultset.
> Correct?
> =dn
>
>
> > Because that wouldn't give the correct results.
> > I want the top 5 rows for EACH id.
> ...
> > select distinct cid from mytable;
> > foreach(cid) {
> > select * from mytable where cid='$cid' order by hits desc limit 2;
> > }
> >
> > Which means the table is reread over and over. With this extra
> function we
> > could reduce the reads to at best once.
>
SQL
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