Question

Ok, i have a table having multiple values. Now i want to know which tuple is the oldest one (the very first one among all inserted in the table). Is there any way to know it?

Answer 1

Best way to achieve this, if you have a datetime or timestamp column in your table which holds the date of insertion of records. Then you can, refer that date column and get the oldest record.

Other way, may not be accurate; is to order by a field with limit; like

SELECT   *
FROM     your_table
WHERE    value='value1'
ORDER BY field1 
LIMIT    1