>I was looking at using the LIMIT feature in MySQL, but the MySQL manual said >that if you use ORDER BY with LIMIT in the same SELECT it does the LIMIT >before the ORDER BY. Therefore it does the limit then orders the limit list >only, not order the entire list then returns the limit from that. Is this >true?
In my experience, it does the ORDER BY and then the LIMIT. Or, at least, that's what comes out of the browser. They *MIGHT* be doing something so that after they find the first 10 records (or whatever your LIMIT is) they *QUIT* sorting all the others, since there's not much point to sorting records you ain't gonna be getting anyway, is there? -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
