Question

I have a table like,

 contractId date          value    
  1          09/02/2011     A         
  2          13/02/2011     C          
  4          02/02/2011     D   
  6          08/02/2011     A  
  7          12/02/2011     C  
  9          22/01/2011     C  

How can I access the last record’th(9) previous record(contractId – 7)?. Is there any SQL query available?.

Answer 1

  SELECT *
    FROM table
ORDER BY contractId DESC
   LIMIT 1,1

This query reverses your table and gets one record from the position 1 (so it will be the second row; 0 is the first one).