Reputation: 18648
I am working on python sqlite3.
This statement gets records 5 - 14;
SELECT * FROM something LIMIT 5, 10;
But how do I get, lets say the first five and last five records through a single statement?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 573
Reputation: 3128
Maybe the better way is using rowid
in your order by
clause to get the first and last rows based on inserting the rows:
select test from
(select test,rowid from table1 order by rowid asc limit 0,5)t1
union all
select test from
(select test,rowid from table1 order by rowid desc limit 0,5)t2;
Here is a sample in SQL Fiddle
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 4414
You can combine output of two select statement like this:
(SELECT * FROM `something` order by some_column_name
limit 0,5)
union
(SELECT * FROM `something` order by some_column_name desc
limit 0,5
)
Specify some ordering of rows, so that it will select rows accordingly.
Upvotes: 8