Question

I have a mysql query

SELECT * FROM lead LIMIT 5 OFFSET 0 

to select data from the table lead and limit the results to 5 with offset of 0. I would like to order the results by its id by desc, so the results will be populated as the last added data first.

I tried

SELECT * FROM lead LIMIT 5 OFFSET 0 order by id desc

but it’s not working. Please correct me where am wrong.

Answer 1

You have to

select * from lead order by id desc LIMIT 5 OFFSET 0

The manual ( http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html ) describes that LIMIT is only allowed to appear after the ORDER BY.