Question

how can I edit this code so that it selects the $name with the second lowest ‘id’ value:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE name='$name' ORDER BY id ASC LIMIT 1

I thought it might be something like:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE name='$name' ORDER BY id ASC + 1 LIMIT 1

but that wasn’t right. Any Ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

Specify an offset like so:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE name='$name' ORDER BY id ASC LIMIT 1 OFFSET 1

or like so:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE name='$name' ORDER BY id ASC LIMIT 1, 1

In the latter case, the first number is the offset, and the second is the number of elemenets returned.

See also:

• SELECT Syntax – MySQL documentation