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Mr Hyde
Mr Hyde

Reputation: 3413

MySQL Inner Join With LIMIT to left table

I have this database query

SELECT *
FROM (`metadata` im)
INNER JOIN `content` ic ON `im`.`rev_id`  = `ic`.`rev_id`
WHERE `im`.`id` = '00039'
AND `current_revision` = 1
ORDER BY `timestamp` DESC
LIMIT 5, 5

The query limits the total rows in the result to 5. I want to limit the left table metadata to 5 without limiting the entire result-set.

How should I write the query?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 24142

Answers (3)

Bas Kuis
Bas Kuis

Reputation: 770

Here is another possible approach:

SET @serial=0;
SET @thisid=0;

SELECT 
   @serial := IF((@thisid != im.id), @serial + 1, @serial), 
   @thisid := im.id,
   * 
FROM (`metadata` im)
WHERE `im`.`id` = '00039'
AND `current_revision` = 1
AND @serial < 5
ORDER BY `timestamp` DESC

This isn't tested. Please let me know if you run into issue implementing this - and I can elaborate.

Upvotes: 1

S L
S L

Reputation: 14318

Well, I think you mean LEFT JOIN try using LEFT JOIN instead of INNER JOIN

    SELECT DISTINCT *
    FROM (`metadata` im)
    INNER JOIN `content` ic ON `im`.`rev_id`  = `ic`.`rev_id`
    WHERE `im`.`id` = '00039'
    AND `current_revision` = 1
    ORDER BY `timestamp` DESC
    LIMIT 5, 5

Upvotes: 0

Christian Payne
Christian Payne

Reputation: 7169

If you think about what you are trying to do, you're not really doing a select against metadata.

You need to sub query that first.

Try:

SELECT *
FROM ((select * from metadata limit 5) im)
INNER JOIN `content` ic ON `im`.`rev_id`  = `ic`.`rev_id`
WHERE `im`.`id` = '00039'
AND `current_revision` = 1
ORDER BY `timestamp` DESC

Upvotes: 17

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