[UPHPU] select 10 by date, order by name

[Scott Mattocks]

Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
>> select * from table t order by t.date desc, t.name desc limit 10
> 
> Wow. I didn't know you could order by multiple columns. Thank you.

That doesn't do what you want though. That returns the first 10 rows 
sorted by date, and if two have the same date, sorts those by name.

There is no good way to do what you want in SQL. It will require at 
least one subselect and if the table has a significant amount of rows it 
will be painfully slow.

You are better off sorting by date, limiting by 10 and then sorting the 
result in PHP by name.

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