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
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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 having a
> problem with ordering my query results...
>
> I first want to select the 50 most recently created records (with respect
> to my date field) and then order these with respect to another field (eg
> name). That way I'm always "ordering" the 50 most recent records. The
> problem is, I can't figure out how to do this - as MYSQl complains when I
> put 2 "ORDER BY" statements in a query such as in:
>
> order by table1.time_created desc limit 50 order by table1.name;
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> -David
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