Question

I have a table ‘results’ in which the scores are stored. Its ordered by the date of `test’. Now i need to get the details of the users who have secured 1st , 2nd and 3rd in the test.

i suppose that to get the 1st score i can use:

select *
from RESULTS
where SCORE=max(SCORE)

But what about for 2nd and 3rd.
Also is it possible to get the three of them together in a single query.

Answer 1

You could try (MySql)

SELECT * FROM results
ORDER BY score DESC
LIMIT 3

or (MS-SQL)

SELECT TOP 3 * FROM results
ORDER BY score DESC

or (Oracle)

SELECT * FROM
    (SELECT * FROM results
     ORDER BY score DESC) t
WHERE ROWNUM < 4