On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 19:39, Michelle de Beer wrote: > > you mean mySQL does the search on 100 first entries > > and then order the > > results, instead of getting the results and > > returning only the first 100 ? > > If yes I too would like to know what's the right way > > to do it in SQL then ? > > That is correct. This is what I have: > > One table with 1000 records. Two columns, students > names (name) and the total score of a test (total) > > When I try this query, I sort by the highest total: > Select * from mytable ORDER by total desc > > When on the other hand I use this query, mySQL only > takes the first hundred rows and sorts them: > Select * from mytable ORDER by total desc limit 0, 100 > > The problem is that there can be a very high score at > row 234, that should be in the top one hundred result, > but this is left out. > > So the question is, can I limit the result and get all > the highest scores from my table with a query, or do I > have to add a counter in my PHP-script that breaks out > of the loop at 100? > > Thanks, > // Michelle > sql, query Try this query then: select name,max(total) from mytable
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