Re: reversing the order of a limited query On 20 Apr, 13:30, "Tigger" <mccre...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> "Captain Paralytic" <paul_laut...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > On 17 Apr, 00:21, cami...@mit.edu wrote:
> >> I keep track of some documents for work, and have built an rss feed to
> >> show the most recent 20. A simplified version of the query is here:
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> >> SELECT date_created, id, name
> >> FROM documents
> >> ORDER BY date_created desc
> >> LIMIT 0, 20
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> >> This will show the most recent documents, with the most recent on the
> >> top. Is it possible to reverse the order of these last twenty?
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> >> I'd like to have a list of the most recent documents, ordered ascending.
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> >> Thanks,
> >> Charley
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> > Here is one way:
> > SELECT * FROM (
> > SELECT date_created, id, name
> > FROM documents
> > ORDER BY date_created desc
> > LIMIT 0, 20 ) AS md
> > ORDER BY date_created
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> How do you read the data?
I don't read it. I did not post the question. |