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AskSQLTeam
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Posted - 08/18/2005 :  07:57:36  Show Profile  Visit AskSQLTeam's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Mack writes "I want to select last 2 records from a table AA which has following 5 records.

111
222
333
444
555

There is no primary key.
Any tip will be really appretiated.
Thanks for taking time to read it."

Kristen
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/18/2005 :  08:00:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi Mack, Welcome to SQL Team!

You will have to declare some sort of ORDER BY to get the "last two" - SQL has no concept of an order to the data - so if you need the last two in order or data entry you will need a "Create Date" column in the record.

SELECT TOP 2 *
FROM MyTable
ORDER BY MyColumn

Kristen
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madhivanan
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Posted - 08/18/2005 :  08:11:13  Show Profile  Send madhivanan a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
You need to define last two

SELECT TOP 2 *
FROM MyTable
ORDER BY MyColumn DESC

Madhivanan

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