Is MySQL LIMIT applied before or after ORDER BY?

Question

Which one comes first when MySQL processes the query?

An example:

SELECT pageRegions
FROM pageRegions WHERE(pageID=?) AND(published=true) AND (publis         


        

Answer 1

Yes, it's after the ORDER BY. For your query, you'd get the record with the highest publishedOn, since you're ordering DESC, making the largest value first in the result set, of which you pick out the first one.