What does LIMIT 1 do?

On 7/19/06, Brannon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> select rowid from table limit 1 offset -1;
> Two ways to do this:
>
>    SELECT rowid FROM table ORDER BY rowid DESC LIMIT 1;
>    SELECT max(rowid) FROM table;

Yes, but neither one of those would be as fast as this query, true?

SELECT rowid FROM table LIMIT 1

I guess I was thinking to avoid the sort overhead.


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