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Asked: 2026-05-10T13:55:50+00:00

I have a query where I wish to retrieve the oldest X records. At

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I have a query where I wish to retrieve the oldest X records. At present my query is something like the following:

SELECT Id, Title, Comments, CreatedDate FROM MyTable WHERE CreatedDate > @OlderThanDate ORDER BY CreatedDate DESC

I know that normally I would remove the ‘DESC’ keyword to switch the order of the records, however in this instance I still want to get records ordered with the newest item first.

So I want to know if there is any means of performing this query such that I get the oldest X items sorted such that the newest item is first. I should also add that my database exists on SQL Server 2005.

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  1. Why not just use a subquery?

    SELECT T1.*  FROM (SELECT TOP X Id, Title, Comments, CreatedDate FROM MyTable WHERE CreatedDate > @OlderThanDate ORDER BY CreatedDate) T1 ORDER BY CreatedDate DESC
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