You seem to be confused in your posting. Your first list is in ASC order
and appears correct. Your second list seems to be in DESC order and also
seems to be correct. Why is it your results need to have '2004-11-20'
pretend to be AFTER '2004-11-24' so that it appears first in a descending
I'm currently running a query on a db that looks as follows:
SELECT field1,field2,field3 FROM table ORDER BY field3 DESC LIMIT 5;
This produces:
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| field1 | field2 | field3 |
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| 1 | Title 1 |
- Original Message -
From: Ashley M. Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SELECT field1,field2,field3 FROM table ORDER BY field3 DESC LIMIT 5;
My problem is, I need the last two in that list, in the order
they're listed there. If I reverse the order (by using ASC), I will get:
Jigal van Hemert wrote:
You can cheat a bit and use a UNION of one SELECT:
(SELECT field1,field2,field3 FROM table ORDER BY field3 ASC LIMIT 2) ORDER
BY field3 DESC;
This didn't work as expected. First, I need DESC sorting instead of
ASC to get what I need:
SELECT field1,field2,field3
From: Ashley M. Kirchner
Jigal van Hemert wrote:
You can cheat a bit and use a UNION of one SELECT:
(SELECT field1,field2,field3 FROM table ORDER BY field3 ASC LIMIT 2)
ORDER
BY field3 DESC;
This didn't work as expected.
Very odd!
These are my results on MySQL 4.0.21 using InnoDB
Jigal van Hemert wrote:
These are my results on MySQL 4.0.21 using InnoDB tables (it was suitable
data for this test, InnoDB was used for other reasons):
rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
MySQL-server-4.1.7-0
MySQL-devel-4.1.7-0
MySQL-client-4.1.7-0
MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.7-0
