How to ORDER BY DESC and display the first 3 records in MySQL?

For this, you can use ORDER BY DESC with LIMIT. Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table DemoTable (    UserId int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,    UserName varchar(100) ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.59 sec)

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable(UserName) values('Chris'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.16 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable(UserName) values('Robert'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.13 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable(UserName) values('Bob'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.12 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable(UserName) values('David'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable(UserName) values('Mike'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select *from DemoTable;

This will produce the following output −

+--------+----------+ | UserId | UserName | +--------+----------+ | 1 | Chris | | 2 | Robert | | 3 | Bob | | 4 | David | | 5 | Mike | +--------+----------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Following is the query to display first 3 records after applying for ORDER BY DESC on a MySQL column −

mysql> select *from DemoTable order by UserId DESC LIMIT 0,3;

This will produce the following output −

+--------+----------+ | UserId | UserName | +--------+----------+ | 5 | Mike | | 4 | David | | 3 | Bob | +--------+----------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)