Question

I have this table

id  fruit
---------
1   apple
2   banana <--
3   apple
4   apple
5   apple
6   apple
7   banana <----

8   apple
9   banana
10  apple

And I want to select rows until 2 bananas are found, like

SELECT id FROM table_fruit UNTIL number_of_bananas = 2

So the result would be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

How could I achieve this?

thanks

I wish I could give credits to all of you who answered my question. I’v tested all of them, and they all work perfectly (got the expected result).

Though answers of Devart and ypercube seem a little bit complex and difficult for me to understand.

And since AnandPhadke was the first one provided a working solution, I’ll choose his answer as accepted.

You guys are awesome, thanks!

Answer 1

select * from tables where id <=

(
select id from (
select id from tables where fruit='banana'
order by id limit 2) a order by id desc limit 1
)

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