How to select only 3 ordered rows on a MySQL table?

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

mysql> create table DemoTable1551    -> (    -> EmployeeId int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,    -> EmployeeName varchar(20)    -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.52 sec)

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable1551(EmployeeName) values('Chris'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.25 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable1551(EmployeeName) values('Robert'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.13 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable1551(EmployeeName) values('Mike'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.12 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable1551(EmployeeName) values('Sam'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.11 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable1551(EmployeeName) values('David'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.09 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable1551(EmployeeName) values('Adam'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.11 sec)

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select * from DemoTable1551;

This will produce the following output −

+------------+--------------+ | EmployeeId | EmployeeName | +------------+--------------+ |          1 | Chris        | |          2 | Robert       | |          3 | Mike         | |          4 | Sam          | |          5 | David        | |          6 | Adam         | +------------+--------------+ 6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Following is the query to select only 3 ordered rows in a MySQL table −

mysql> select * from DemoTable1551    -> order by EmployeeId desc limit 0,3;

This will produce the following output −

+------------+--------------+ | EmployeeId | EmployeeName | +------------+--------------+ |          6 | Adam         | |          5 | David        | |          4 | Sam          | +------------+--------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)