Select 2 products from each category in MySQL

Question

Pretty similar to MYSQL - select first 4 records for each category in a table but there isn\'t an accepted answer and the one answer there doesn\'t make much sense so i\'m a

Answer 1

This should do what you are looking for.

SET @I=0; 
SET @C='';
SELECT ID, Name, Category FROM (
    SELECT B.*, 
    IF(@C != B.Category, @I:=1, @I:=@I+1) AS RowNum,
    @C:=B.Category
    FROM (
        SELECT ID, Name, Category FROM Products GROUP BY Name, Category ORDER BY Category
    ) AS B HAVING RowNum <= 2
) AS A