Question

i have two rows:

ID | Name
1  | Adrian
2  | Cheska

I want to be able to select the row with a lower id, which in this case is ‘Adrian’ because he has the ID=1 which is lower than 2. How can i select the row with a lower column value?

Answer 1

Not sure about your RDBMS..This should work in all RDBMSs

select * 
from your_table
where ID in(select min(id) from your_table)

or

EDIT:(as per a_horse_with_no_name‘s comment)

select * 
from your_table
where ID =(select min(id) from your_table)