Interesting thought. I just tried it with 9999 and even 999 - same
error! I'm sure that 999 records is not too large for MySQL... :) :)
On Nov 7, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Joseph Cochran wrote:
The quoted line is 999999 but you're using 99999999, which I
presume is too big for the system to recognize as a valid number.
Try the smaller number and see if that works. That's a big problem
with a solution like this: you are hardcoding a number into the
system. For a sufficiently large dataset, you will not actually
delete everything (it's not insurmountable -- you can always run
the statement over and over until no rows are affected, for example).
DELETE FROM table
WHERE field='somevalue'
ORDER BY timestamp DESC
LIMIT 100,99999999;
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