From: Martijn Tonies
Date: September 15 2006 9:13am
Subject: Re: How to sort last n entries?
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> > At 10:41 +0200 15/9/06, Dominik Klein wrote:
> >> I have a table with primary key "id". Another field is "date". Now I 
> >> want the last n entries, sorted by "date".
> >>
> >> Is this possible in one SQL statement?
> > 
> > ORDER BY `date` DESC LIMIT n
> > 
> 
> Last n entries means I want the last (highest) n ids. And that result 
> sorted by date.

ORDER BY `id` DESC, `date` ASC LIMIT n

I think :-)

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