Question

I have the following query working properly.

 SELECT * 
    FROM (
         SELECT * 
         FROM table 
         WHERE name IS NULL 
         ORDER BY date DESC 
         LIMIT 20
         ) AS T 
    ORDER BY date ASC;

What I would like is to select the top 5 records of that sql select query. So according to the posts I read I should only have to add TOP 5. See here below:

 SELECT TOP 5 * 
        FROM (
             SELECT * 
             FROM table 
             WHERE name IS NULL 
             ORDER BY date DESC 
             LIMIT 20
             ) AS T 
        ORDER BY date ASC;

Unfortunately mysql is telling me that there is a syntax error but I don’t get it. Thank you in advance for replies. Cheers. Marc

Answer 1

Just add another limit..

 SELECT * 
    FROM (
         SELECT * 
         FROM table 
         WHERE name IS NULL 
         ORDER BY date DESC 
         LIMIT 20
         ) AS T 
    ORDER BY date ASC
    LIMIT 5;