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From: "Ron Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: Display information
> SELECT id,lot_id,lot_type FROM scrap_table
> ORDER BY id limit 1932,10;
>
> seemed promising but it put them in oldest-to-newest order (ascending),
> not newest-to-oldest order (desc). When the "desc" qualifier was added,
> I got records 122 thru 113. Again, not exactly what I was looking for.
You only have to know the total number of record ,which I think you can easily get
SELECT id,lot_id,lot_type FROM scrap_table
ORDER BY id DESC limit TOT - 1932,10
at the present time I don't remember if ther is a way to do it directly from SQL,
but I don't think it's such a great effort ^^
> What I was actually hoping for was something I could add to my original
> SELECT statement to perform the task if someone entered the ID but would
> show all (limit 10) if there was no entry. And, I wanted to do it
> without rewriting my code. Unfortunately, it looks like I may have to
> do a code rewrite for that section, which means documenting, testing,
> acceptance...
>
> Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions....
> Ron
>
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