opposite of “top” in sql server, without using order by, there are no keys/indices

Question

I want to retrieve the bottom 10 results from a sql server table. I want them to be the last 10 records that were inserted, how can I do this ?

I want to write

Answer 1

If there is a auto-increment id (primary key) for that table then you can do that:

select top 10 * 
from mytable
order by id desc