Question

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I want to display last 5 entered data for specific id.
My sql query is,

SELECT id, name, form_id, DATE(updated_at) as date
  FROM wp_frm_items
  WHERE user_id = 11 && form_id=9
  ORDER BY updated_at DESC

updated_at is DATETIME

It displays last 5 entry sort by date not by time. On same date then it is sorting alphabetically.

Suppose i have 3 entries in same date with diff time

let’s say

Ajay 1/3/2012 1:15
John 1/3/2012 1:00
Bony 1/3/2012 1:10

after querying the above query

what i got is

Ajay 1/3/2012 1:15
Bony 1/3/2012 1:10
John 1/3/2012 1:00

Sort by date then after alphabetically

What i want is this..

John 1/3/2012 1:00
Bony 1/3/2012 1:10
Ajay 1/3/2012 1:15

Sorted by date and time also…

Answer 1

If you want the last 5 rows, ordered in ascending order, you need a subquery:

SELECT *
FROM
    ( SELECT id, name, form_id, DATE(updated_at) AS updated_date, updated_at
      FROM wp_frm_items
      WHERE user_id = 11 
        AND form_id=9
      ORDER BY updated_at DESC
      LIMIT 5
    ) AS tmp
ORDER BY updated_at

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After reading the question for 10th time, this may be (just maybe) what you want. Order by Date descending and then order by time (on same date) ascending:

SELECT id, name, form_id, DATE(updated_at) AS updated_date
FROM wp_frm_items
WHERE user_id = 11 
  AND form_id=9
ORDER BY DATE(updated_at) DESC
       , updated_at ASC