> Specify a maxrows attribute in your CFQUERY call and sort by date
> descending:
>
> <cfquery name="myName" datasource="myDSN" maxrows=5 dbtype="ODBC">
> SELECT ....
> FROM ..
> WHERE ..
> ORDER BY submittedDateTime DESC
> </cfquery>
Just one word to say to this - YUK!
MaxRows trims the output after SQL has done the work - if the table has
hundreds of thousands of records, this will still take time to come from the
database - it's a LOT quicker to get SQL to trim out 5 records, than to get
CF to trim them out.
Philip Arnold
ASP Multimedia Limited
T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133
"Websites for the real world"
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