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Selecting the nth row in a table in MySQL
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schedule Mar 9, 2022
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expand_more We can retrieve the nth row in a table in MySQL using LIMIT x OFFSET y syntax.
Example
Consider the following table about some students:
student_id | fname | lname | day_enrolled | age | username |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sky | Towner | 2015-12-03 | 17 | stowner1 |
2 | Ben | Davis | 2016-04-20 | 19 | bdavis2 |
3 | Travis | Apple | 2018-08-14 | 18 | tapple3 |
4 | Arthur | David | 2016-04-01 | 16 | adavid4 |
5 | Benjamin | Town | 2014-01-01 | 17 | btown5 |
The above sample table can be created using the code here.
To retrieve the 4th row in students table:
SELECT * FROM studentsLIMIT 1 OFFSET 3;
+------------+--------+-------+--------------+------+----------+| student_id | fname | lname | day_enrolled | age | username |+------------+--------+-------+--------------+------+----------+| 4 | Arthur | David | 2016-04-01 | 16 | adavid4 |+------------+--------+-------+--------------+------+----------+
The LIMIT 1 means we only want to retrieve 1 row, and OFFSET 3 tells MySQL to skip the first 3 records.
NOTE
Usually LIMIT y OFFSET x will be combined with an ORDER BY clause. For example, we can retrieve the 5th oldest student using an ORDER BY age clause together with LIMIT 1 OFFSET 4.
Published by Arthur Yanagisawa
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