Question

I have a table with the schema below. I need to fetch the last 12 icons that contain images and caricature and ….

I need the last 12 fields that contains images and the last 12 fields that contains caricature. Meaning the last 24 field that contains images or caricature

+------+---------------------+
| id   | icons               |
+------+---------------------+
| 2583 | images              |
| 2582 | images              |
| 2581 | images,caricature   |
| 2580 | economic            |
| 2579 |                     |
| 2578 |                     |
| 2577 |                     |
| 2576 |                     |
| 2575 | images,audio        |
| 2574 | images,infographics |
+------+---------------------+

Answer 1

If you’re looking for 12 items per each of the 3 categories, then only one limit 12 clause clearly won’t solve it. What you’re trying to do is to UNION the top 12 results of those 3 categories. So you you should try this:

(select id, 'caricature' from t
where icons like '%caricature%'
order by id desc
limit 12)
union
(select id, 'economic' from t
where icons like '%economic%'
order by id desc
limit 12)
union
(select id, 'images' from t
where icons like '%images%'
order by id desc
limit 12)

Note: You should not remove the parentheses.

Let me know if you have any doubts.