http://www.mysqldiary.com Exploring, Sharing and Discussing MySQL practice Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:03:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mysqldiary.com/limited-select-count/ http://www.mysqldiary.com/limited-select-count/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 21:52:43 +0000 Hazan Ilan http://www.mysqldiary.com/?p=98 A SELECT statement with COUNT returns the number of rows retrieved by the SELECT statement (see mysql select count). For performance reasons, the desired result is to limit that count. Including a LIMIT clause in the SELECT statement will not work since it only restricts the number of rows returned, which is always one. The [...]

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