On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 17:44, Jake Johnson wrote: > Be careful! Phil wanted the top 20 and the limit 20 will only return a > random 20 records.
Actually, LIMIT x will return the first x rows of a query, not random records. In fact, you can even combine ORDER BY and LIMIT if you want to get the first x rows of some order. http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SELECT.html http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/LIMIT_optimisation.html gabe. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
