Well, then you need to ORDER BY #,letter
Ashwin Kutty wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought version 4.0 was supposed to do a Order By first and then a
> Limit after that on the results returned on a SELECT.. I have just
> installed the new version and I hit the same problem I was hitting
> before, i.e., the Limit seems to be executing first and then the Order
> By causing all the results to be haphazard when they display.. Now if I
> go for a wider set of results, i.e. increase the Limit, the results come
> a lot better then, i.e. more of them are ordered right, but then, again,
> it still skips a lot more.. As an example:-
>
> Results Set
> # letter
> 1 f
> 1 a
> 2 b
> 1 c
> 3 d
> 1 e
> 1 h
> 1 g
>
>
> Limit 2
>
> Order By #
>
> 1 a
> 1 f
>
> Then when I go to the next set, I get
>
> 1 c
> 1 e
>
> Instead I would like it to be as the following:-
> First Set:-
> 1 a
> 1 c
> Second Set:-
> 1 e
> 1 f
>
> etc..
>
> Any ideas?
>
> These are a few specs of the server & stuff..
> Linux kernel 2.4.7-2 on a Redhat 8 server running Mysql 4.0.0-alpha
> The query I have is as follows:-
> SELECT * from tablename WHERE fieldname LIKE "%keyword%" ORDER BY
> fieldname DESC LIMIT 0,10;
>
> Thanks..
>
>
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