Question

How can I select specific rows in a MySQL Table? So instead of selecting ... ORDER BY date can I do something like SELECT * FROM Posts FROM(5) TO(10) ORDER BY date DESC where I would be selecting Posts 5 to 10 in the descending order?

Answer 1

Your question is a little ambiguous. There are two possibilities:

1. You want only part of the results to be retrieved from the database, for example from the 5th one to the 10th one:

   SELECT * FROM `posts` ORDER BY `date` DESC LIMIT 6 OFFSET 4
   

   which will skip the 4 first results and given you next 6 results (beginning with 5th from the original set and ending with 10th from the original set).

2. You want results with specific IDs between 5 (inclusive) and 10 (inclusive):

   SELECT * FROM `posts` WHERE `id` BETWEEN 5 AND 10 ORDER BY `date` DESC
   

   or (which can be useful if the list of IDs is not the whole range):

   SELECT * FROM `posts` WHERE `id` IN (5,6,7,8,9,10) ORDER BY `date` DESC
   

   but this last example is only to show you different way of picking “specific” rows.