From: | Randall Perry <rgp(at)systame(dot)com> |
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To: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Can this be done in one query? |
Date: | 2002-05-08 16:03:48 |
Message-ID: | 20020508164443.VVTO8262.imf18bis.bellsouth.net@[216.77.205.74] |
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Thanks, that's the best solution.
But I don't get the syntax; what's the 'c' at the end -- an alias?
>
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Randall Perry wrote:
>
>> With the following:
>>
>> select max(date) from log order by date_time desc limit 12;
>>
>> The limit clause has no effect on the results; it'll get the latest date
>> from the entire record set rather than from the last 12 records.
>
> Maybe something like:
> select max(date) from (select date from log order by date_time desc limit
> 12) c;
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