[PHP] last row in the table

2001-12-21 Thread Andrey Hristov
Ususally when someone needs to select last row in a table (s)he do: select * from some_table order by some_field desc limit 1; but there is another possible solution for mysql : ? mysql_free_result(mysql_query('select @a:=max(member_id) from memberInfo')); $res=mysql_query('select * from

Re: [PHP] last row in the table

2001-12-21 Thread Andrey Hristov
I wrote this because maybe the ordering is more expensive than 2 queries (one one indexed field possibly). Regards, Andrey - Original Message - From: Andrey Hristov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 5:18 PM Subject: [PHP] last row in the table