Question

I’m trying to select a specific set of records which should work like this:

query 1 should select ID’s = 1,2,3 skip 4 – 5,6,7 skip 8 – 9,10,11 skip 12 and so on.
query 2 should select only every 4th ID = 4,8,12,16 and so on.

I found this code to select every 4th record:

SELECT *
FROM (
    SELECT
        @row := @row +1 AS rownum, noun
    FROM (
        SELECT @row :=0) r, nouns
    ) ranked
WHERE rownum %4 =1 

I didn’t test it yet, but I will just assume that it works, but how can I do the first query ?

Thanks

Answer 1

select * from table where id mod 4 <> 0