Question

I have a database table like this

<table>
 <tr>
   <th>no</th>
   <th>name</th>
   <th>income</th>
   <th>work</th>
   <th>score</th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>1</td>
   <td>alan</td>
   <td>US 100</td>
   <td>Designer</td>
   <td>30%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>2</td>
   <td>lara</td>
   <td>US 100</td>
   <td>Doctor</td>
   <td>34%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>3</td>
   <td>foong</td>
   <td>US 100</td>
   <td>Teacher</td>
   <td>7%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>4</td>
   <td>Rose</td>
   <td>US 50</td>
   <td>Waitress</td>
   <td>55%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>5</td>
   <td>Jack</td>
   <td>US 30</td>
   <td>Programmer</td>
   <td>50%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>6</td>
   <td>jeff</td>
   <td>US 3</td>
   <td>Lawyer</td>
   <td>90%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>7</td>
   <td>elson</td>
   <td>US 2000</td>
   <td>Footballer</td>
   <td>60%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>8</td>
   <td>steve</td>
   <td>US 22</td>
   <td>chef</td>
   <td>10%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>9</td>
   <td>albert</td>
   <td>US 35</td>
   <td>Admin</td>
   <td>80%</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td>10</td>
   <td>warnock</td>
   <td>US 5</td>
   <td>Technicer</td>
   <td>1%</td>
 </tr>
 <table>

then I want show the result on the table is Top 5 Score only
but my table is sort by income column.

I use this string to query:

 SELECT * FROM table ORDER by score DESC, income ASC LIMIT 0,5 

but my result is sort by score not income.

I want the table is sort by income with top 5 score only

any idea on this?

thanks for advance.

Answer 1

Just treat your initial result set as a sub-query of one in which you sort your final results by income:

SELECT  *
FROM    (
    SELECT * FROM table ORDER by score DESC, income ASC LIMIT 0,5 
    ) t
ORDER BY income