Question

I have a table “test”. the stamp gets updated everytime table is updated.

id  |  text    |   stamp  
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1   |  textA   |   2012-11-06 01:06:34
2   |  textB   |   2012-11-06 01:01:34
3   |  textC   |   2012-11-06 01:03:34
4   |  textD   |   2012-11-06 01:05:34
5   |  textE   |   2012-11-06 01:02:34
6   |  textF   |   2012-11-06 01:08:34
7   |  textG   |   2012-11-06 01:09:34
8   |  textH   |   2012-11-06 01:04:34

I run a query
“SELECT * from test ORDER BY stamp DESC LIMIT 3” (This returns rows with id 7,6 and 1)

Now I have the id of the last row returned (ie 1). How do I use that id to run a second query to fetch next 3 rows where the time stamp < stamp of id ?

Expected result is rows 4,8,3.

Answer 1

SELECT id, text, stamp
FROM test 
WHERE stamp < (SELECT stamp FROM test WHERE id=1);