I have a table with records and it has a row called category. I have inserted too many articles and I want to select only two articles from each category.
I tried to do something like this:
I created a view:
CREATE VIEW limitrows AS
SELECT * FROM tbl_artikujt ORDER BY articleid DESC LIMIT 2
Then I created this query:
SELECT *
FROM tbl_artikujt
WHERE
artikullid IN
(
SELECT artikullid
FROM limitrows
ORDER BY category DESC
)
ORDER BY category DESC;
But this is not working and is giving me only two records?
解决方案
LIMIT only stops the number of results the statement returns. What you're looking for is generally called analytic/windowing/ranking functions - which MySQL doesn't support but you can emulate using variables:
SELECT x.*
FROM (SELECT t.*,
CASE
WHEN @category != t.category THEN @rownum := 1
ELSE @rownum := @rownum + 1
END AS rank,
@category := t.category AS var_category
FROM TBL_ARTIKUJT t
JOIN (SELECT @rownum := NULL, @category := '') r
ORDER BY t.category) x
WHERE x.rank <= 3
If you don't change SELECT x.*, the result set will include the rank and var_category values - you'll have to specify the columns you really want if this isn't the case.