Question

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I want to select rows in desc order that aren’t the last 5 rows but the 5 before that!

So if I had 140 rows, I want rows 131-135.

The following ets me 136-140.

SELECT id, title, content, date FROM tbl_news ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 5

How could I change the limit value to achieve 131-135?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You want to use the two parameter limit:

SELECT id, title, content, date FROM tbl_news ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 5, 5

This will give you the first 5 rows after row 5(so rows 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) which is the 5 rows before the last 5 like you want.

Edit: Fiddle here: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/9113a/1

It should return id’s 4-8 as there are 12 records here.