Re: SELECT TOP

2003-07-14 Thread Eternal Designs, Inc
Jake Johnson wrote: No kidding. I didn't know that. Thanks a lot! Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Car Audio, and Performance Parts. On Mo

Re: SELECT TOP

2003-07-14 Thread Jake Johnson
No kidding. I didn't know that. Thanks a lot! Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Car Audio, and Performance Parts. On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Gabr

Re: SELECT TOP

2003-07-14 Thread Eternal Designs, Inc
Sure Woody and Phil are right; just take out TOP 20 and put LIMIT 20 at the end of your SQL. If you care for the docs, the page is at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SELECT.html Peter Eternal Designs Phil Bitis wrote: Yeah, put LIMIT 20 on the end. - Original Message - From: "Jim McAtee" <

Re: SELECT TOP

2003-07-14 Thread William R. Mussatto
> What's wrong with the following query? The application used to use > Access via ODBC, now running MySQL 3.23.xx, MyISAM table, accessed via > MyODBC 3.51.01. > > // Return last 20 searches > SELECT TOP 20 h.historyid, h.searchstring, h.serverid, s.shortname FROM > history h > INNER JOIN server

Re: SELECT TOP

2003-07-14 Thread Gabriel Guzman
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 fi

Re: SELECT TOP

2003-07-14 Thread Jake Johnson
Be careful! Phil wanted the top 20 and the limit 20 will only return a random 20 records. Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Car Audio, and Per

Re: SELECT TOP

2003-07-14 Thread woody at nfri dot com
SELECT h.historyid, h.searchstring, h.serverid, s.shortname FROM history h INNER JOIN servers s ON h.serverid = s.serverid WHERE h.employeeid = 9 ORDER BY h.historyid DESC limit 20; ^ You probably mean LIMIT to limit. On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 17:12, Jim McAtee w

Re: SELECT TOP

2003-07-14 Thread Phil Bitis
Yeah, put LIMIT 20 on the end. - Original Message - From: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 11:12 PM Subject: SELECT TOP > What's wrong with the following query? The application used to use Access via > ODBC, now running MySQL 3.23.xx,

Re: SELECT TOP?

2001-05-11 Thread Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Anthony Colli wrote: > Hi all- > I am really new to the list and mysql. Here is my Question. > > I am used to writing SELECT TOP [num] FROM [table] > > I have searched the documentation online and found no mention of how to do > this. But I did find info on LIMIT that li