Question

I was trying to select the second last row with SQL Server. So I wrote a query like this:

SELECT TOP 1 * From Cinema 
WHERE CinemaID!=(SELECT TOP 1 CinemaID 
                 FROM Cinema
                 ORDER BY CinemaID DESC)                      
ORDER BY CinemaID DESC 

and it did what I need. But I want to do the same thing with only one select.

I read that the LIMIT clause in MySql does that. But I couldn’t find any equivalent
of that. So I appreciate any help about finding something useful.

Answer 1

To get the 2nd last row in one select:

SELECT TOP 1 * From
(select Top 2 * from Cinema ORDER BY CinemaID DESC) x                     
ORDER BY CinemaID

It’s really only “one” select because the outer select is over only 2 rows.