Re: How to get the last record from the slected record set

[Manisha Sathe]

yes, but is there any better way of doing it ?

regards
Manisha


----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Pielorz" <kpielorz@stripped>
To: "Manisha Sathe" <manisha@stripped>; <mysql@stripped>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: How to get the last record from the slected record set


>
>
> --On 22 August 2004 20:31 +0800 Manisha Sathe <manisha@stripped>
> wrote:
>
> > I am having more than 10 records in a table. I want to select only first
> > top 10 records (depending on one field score) and then want to select
> > 10th position record.
> >
> > select * from table1 order by score desc LIMIT 10
> >
> > This will give me 10 records but then how to get the last record ?
>
> order by score asc limit 1
>
> [i.e. turn it around and pick the 1st (which will be the last because it's
> ordered the other way)]
>
> :-)
>
> -Kp
>
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