MySQL select before after row

Question

This is the example table:

Column             | 1st record | 2nd record | 3rd record | 4th record | etc

id (primary)       | 1          | 5                


        

Answer 1

Once you have the id 8, you should be able to do a variation on:

select * from mytable
where id < 8
order by id desc
limit 1

and:

select * from mytable
where id > 8
order by id asc
limit 1

for the previous and next record.