Re: How do I determine the row number or key when table has no key fields

2004-04-12 Thread Kevin Carlson
Andy Ford wrote: I thought LIMIT limited you to N number of CONCURRENT record. ie. limit 10 or limit 20 I believe Ross would like to select select 1000 records and then do a sub select of records 1-20 and then 21-40 on this record set LIMIT also allows you to specify a starting record, i.e.

RE: How do I determine the row number or key when table has no key fields

2004-04-02 Thread Andy Eastham
Ross, You'll need to do an order by on both columns (so you'll need to index both columns in a compound index), then use the LIMIT keyword which is designed for exactly this job. Alternatively, unload the data using mysqldump, then edit the table definition to have an autoincrement column, then

RE: How do I determine the row number or key when table has no key fields

2004-04-02 Thread Andy Ford
I thought LIMIT limited you to N number of CONCURRENT record. ie. limit 10 or limit 20 I believe Ross would like to select select 1000 records and then do a sub select of records 1-20 and then 21-40 on this record set Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Andy On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 14:05, Andy