Get the last N rows in the database in order?

Question

Let\'s say I have the following database table:

 record_id | record_date | record_value
-----------+-------------+--------------
         1 | 2010-05-01  |           


        

Answer 1

If you don't want to use order:

select * from something Offset (select case when count(id)>10 then count(id)-10 end from something)