Question

This could be a very basic problem, but I sort of don’t know SQL at all.

To simplify the problem, let there be a table with only one column, so I can write down the rows horizontally:

1 3 11 39 41 45 52 63 66 70 72 80 81 90 92 97

As you can see, they are sorted. Now, I know there is the row with "70", and I want to query five rows before it in ascending order. That is, I want

41 45 52 63 66

How should I do the query?

I can query the five rows in descending order and reverse the result set afterwards, but I think there should be a better way.

Answer 1

Taking likeToCode’s example, just modify it as follows, to reorder the result:

SELECT * FROM (
    SELECT *
    FROM SAMPLE
    WHERE index1 < 70
    ORDER BY index1 DESC
    LIMIT 0,5
)
ORDER BY index1 ASC;