Jj Harrison wrote:
> I know how to delete stuff from a db.
> Now I want to delete all the earliest entires from the database except the
> latest 75 entries.
> Is it easy or hard?
I would say easy..
> I know about limit but it doesn't seem to work the other way.
Assuming you have nothing to associate your records with time of entry,
I agree LIMIT seems to be the easiest.
If you have sub query try something like this.
DELETE from file limit (SELECT count(*) - 75, ',', count(*) from file)
If no sub query you probably have to do it with 2 queries. One to get
the number of records and the other to substitute the variable
$num_records into the DELETE as
DELETE from file file limit $num_records - 75, $num_records
HTH Dan
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