Il 30/03/2016 11:19, Deole, Pushkar (Pushkar) ha scritto:

select * from t order by record_date desc limit 5;

this will return the recent 5 records.. what I want is the oldest 5 records (in last 30 days)

so remove "desc", in order to have ascending ordering, thus first 5 records are the five oldest:

select * from t order by record_date limit 5

Cheers
Moreno.-