At 7:20 PM -0800 3/28/99, <lorin@stripped> wrote:
>I have a database with a column defined as:
>NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT
>Is there a simple SELECT statement to grab the 5 largest entries?
>
>thanks
>-Lkb
>
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>Please check "http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_toc.html" before
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Most specifically, see the LIMIT clause in
http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Reference.html#SELECT
for example,
SELECT * ORDER BY column LIMIT 5
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