Re: nested ORDER BY statements

2003-06-05 Thread Nils Valentin
Hi David, can't give you detailed advice but I believe you look for SELECT...GROUP BY ... ORDER BY Please see the docs like "info mysql". Best regards Nils Valentin Tokyo/Japan \ 2003年 6月 4日 水曜日 22:37、Dave Terrio さんは書きました: > Hello - I'm a relative newcomer to development with MySQL and am

RE: nested ORDER BY statements

2003-06-05 Thread Mike Hillyer
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:08 AM To: Mike Hillyer; Dave Terrio; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: nested ORDER BY statements Hi, I am a bit new to mysql but have extensive experience with Oracle. Does MYSQL allow a select like: select data1

Re: nested ORDER BY statements

2003-06-05 Thread t.wiegman
Hillyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave Terrio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:40 PM Subject: RE: nested ORDER BY statements Aah, in that case I am not sure you can do what you need to do with a single query... A UNION may

RE: nested ORDER BY statements

2003-06-05 Thread Mike Hillyer
Terrio; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: nested ORDER BY statements Aah, in that case I am not sure you can do what you need to do with a single query... A UNION may allow it. (SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE 1=0) UNION (SELECT * FROM table1 ORDER BY table1.time_created DESC LIMIT 50) ORDER BY table1

RE: nested ORDER BY statements

2003-06-05 Thread Mike Hillyer
to take away the first select and the union statement, I am not sure. Regards, Mike Hillyer www.vbmysql.com -Original Message- From: Dave Terrio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:27 AM To: Mike Hillyer Subject: RE: nested ORDER BY statements Thanks for the

Re: nested ORDER BY statements

2003-06-05 Thread Jose Miguel Pérez
Hi David, > Hello - I'm a relative newcomer to development with MySQL and am having a > problem with ordering my query results... This is a general SQL question. Try this: ... ORDER BY time_created DESC, name LIMIT ... In general, you can't declare a clause twice, except for the

RE: nested ORDER BY statements

2003-06-05 Thread Mike Hillyer
Drop the second ORDER BY clause in favor of a comma. ORDER BY table1.time_created DESC, table1.name LIMIT 50 Regards, Mike Hillyer www.vbmysql.com -Original Message- From: Dave Terrio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 7:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nested