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Old 04-23-2008
Captain Paralytic
 
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Default Re: reversing the order of a limited query

On 20 Apr, 13:30, "Tigger" <mccre...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> "Captain Paralytic" <paul_laut...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> news:989c7cc7-9b6e-4912-958e-dfbd7ff524ee@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
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> > On 17 Apr, 00:21, cami...@mit.edu wrote:
> >> I keep track of some documents for work, and have built an rss feed to
> >> show the most recent 20. A simplified version of the query is here:

>
> >> SELECT date_created, id, name
> >> FROM documents
> >> ORDER BY date_created desc
> >> LIMIT 0, 20

>
> >> This will show the most recent documents, with the most recent on the
> >> top. Is it possible to reverse the order of these last twenty?

>
> >> I'd like to have a list of the most recent documents, ordered ascending.

>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Charley

>
> > Here is one way:
> > SELECT * FROM (
> > SELECT date_created, id, name
> > FROM documents
> > ORDER BY date_created desc
> > LIMIT 0, 20 ) AS md
> > ORDER BY date_created

>
> How do you read the data?


I don't read it. I did not post the question.
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