Re: last 25 records from a dataset

I'm not a guru, but I have used a similar query successfully.

On 2002.07.06 23:48 Brian Scandale wrote:
> I am looking for the correct way to retrieve the last 25 records from
> a dataset without having to first retrieve the entire dataset to pull
> out the last 25.
>
> The potential dataset can be very large... 10,000 records that match
> the query... yet I only can use the most recent 25.
>
> my first idea is:
>
> SELECT *
> FROM table
> WHERE thisField=thatValue etc...
> ORDER BY table_id DESC
> LIMIT 25
>
> But I'm not confident in this and looking for a yeah or nay from a
> guru or two or three.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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