I have come up with a bit of a problem which I cant seem to work out...

I have a table that gets updated every minute with data. The table has 3
fields in it... id, date, number

what im trying to do with a single query is, select the last 60 records,
and output the average of the number field

when I do the following query, it takes the avg of every record.

"select avg(number) from table order by date desc limit 60"


Is this possible to do, or will I have to do a count loop within my
program, then divide the count by 60 and do that output (which normally
wouldnt be a problem, but im stuck in a perl script at the moment and I
dont know enough about perl to do loops like this.




Thanks


Chris


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