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Databases Reporting with SQL Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results Review: Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results

Ethan Martin
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Retrieving Data - SELECT, LIMIT, OFFSET

SELECT * FROM passport_holders WHERE name = "Lauren" LIMIT 0, 50;

Can someone tell me what this will do? The answer key is saying it will bring the first 50 rows with these specifications.

However, I interpreted this differently. I thought it would return "nothing" staring at the 51st entry.

isn't the second value the offset?

What does it mean to LIMIT by 0?

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KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
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KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
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From here

The Limit clause accepts one or two parameters, whenever two parameters are specified, the first is the offset and the second denotes the count whereas whenever only one parameter is specified, it denotes the number of rows to be returned from the beginning of the result set.

So with 2 parameters you'll retrieve 50 records starting at 0 (the first 50)

With one parameter (LIMIT 0) you'll retrieve 0 records