How to SELECT the last 10 rows of an SQL table which has no ID field?

Question

I have an MySQL table with 25000 rows.

This is an imported CSV file so I want to look at the last ten rows to make sure it imported everything.

However, sinc

Answer 1

You can use the "ORDER BY DESC" option, then put it back in the original order:

(SELECT * FROM tablename ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 10) ORDER BY id;

Answer 2

A low-tech approach: Doing this with SQL might be overkill. According to your question you just need to do a one-time verification of the import.

Why not just do: SELECT * FROM ImportTable

and then scroll to the bottom of the results grid and visually verify the "last" few lines.

Answer 3

All the answers here are better, but just in case... There is a way of getting 10 last added records. (thou this is quite unreliable :) ) still you can do something like

SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 10 OFFSET N-10

N - should be the total amount of rows in the table (SELECT count(*) FROM table). You can put it in a single query using prepared queries but I'll not get into that.

Answer 4

Select from the table, use the ORDER BY __ DESC to sort in reverse order, then limit your results to 10.

SELECT * FROM big_table ORDER BY A DESC LIMIT 10

Answer 5

you can with code select 10 row from end of table. select * from (SELECT * FROM table1 order by id desc LIMIT 10) as table2 order by id"

Answer 6

If you have not tried the following command

SELECT TOP 10 * FROM big_table ORDER BY id DESC;

I see it's working when I execute the command

SELECT TOP 10 * FROM Customers ORDER BY CustomerId DESC;

in the Try it yourself command window of https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_func_last.asp