How to have reverse order output on MYSQL database

Question

I have a basic write to and retrieve sql database php \"thing\" and I want to have the output in descending order. How do I do that?

Eg. last entry is shown first,

Answer 1

write below query to retrive data

SELECT * FROM `table_name` order by id desc

it will retrieve data from table in descending order

Answer 2

SELECT field_name
FROM table_name 
ORDER BY id DESC

By default mysql Will show results in ascending order if you want to show them in reverse order put ORDER BY field_name DESC

You can use id or date as the field name

Answer 3

Change the ORDER BY statement

• from ORDER BY col or ORDER BY col ASC or to ORDER BY col DESC
• from ORDER BY col DESC to ORDER BY col ASC

Answer 4

MySQL General Query Syntax for Select:

SELECT field1, field2,...fieldN FROM table_name 
[WHERE Clause][GROUP BY]
[ORDER BY][LIMIT]

Example Query 1:

SELECT id,first_name,last_name,email FROM users ORDER BY first_name desc// In this case you can only fetch data by = id,first_name,last_name,email

Example Query 2:

SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY first_name desc // In this case all fields will be selected

Note: ORDER BY ASC = Data will sort by Ascending Order & ORDER BY DESC = Data will sort by descending Order

Answer 5

If there's an auto increment field, you order by that field, descending.

SELECT "column_name"
 FROM "table_name"
 [WHERE "condition"]
 ORDER BY "column_name" [ASC, DESC]; 

That's from http://www.1keydata.com/sql/sqlorderby.html

Answer 6

Sort using DESC ORDER BY.

SELECT * FROM <TABLE> ORDER BY <COLUMN> DESC