Select only 1 iteam

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January 28th, 2004, 12:34 AM

tjtee

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Select only 1 iteam

Hi!

In mySQL there is this function asc limit 1 which will sort the sql select statement and return only 1 result.

When I do this, it says SQL Command not properly ended. Any suggestion? Thank you.

Code:

SELECT myDate order by myDate asc limit 1

January 28th, 2004, 03:48 AM

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Code:

SELECT myDate from (select myDate from t 
order by myDate asc )
where rownum = 1

January 28th, 2004, 05:25 PM

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Thank you.

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