select the TOP N rows from a table

Question

I am making some paging, and I need to make some query and get the result form defined slicing . for example: I need to get all \"top\" rows in range 20n < x < 40n et

Answer 1

In MySql, you can get 10 rows starting from row 20 using:

SELECT * FROM Reflow  
WHERE ReflowProcessID = somenumber
ORDER BY ID DESC
LIMIT 10 OFFSET 20 --Equivalent to LIMIT 20, 10