MySQL offset infinite rows

Question

I would like to construct a query that displays all the results in a table, but is offset by 5 from the start of the table. As far as I can tell, MySQL\'s LIMIT

Answer 1

You can use a MySQL statement with LIMIT:

START TRANSACTION;
SET @my_offset = 5;
SET @rows = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM my_table);
PREPARE statement FROM 'SELECT * FROM my_table LIMIT ? OFFSET ?';
EXECUTE statement USING @rows, @my_offset;
COMMIT;

Tested in MySQL 5.5.44. Thus, we can avoid the insertion of the number 18446744073709551615.

note: the transaction makes sure that the variable @rows is in agreement to the table considered in the execution of statement.