Imagine I've a table 'users' with two fields: 'age' and 'name'. I want to retrieve the top ten older users and then I want this list of ten sorted by name.
Is it possible to do it with MySQL?
I've tried this: (doesn't work)
SELECT * FROM users order by age, name limit 10
Use a subselect:
SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT *
FROM users
ORDER BY age DESC
LIMIT 10
) AS T1
ORDER BY name
The inner select finds the 10 rows you want to return, and the outer select puts them in the correct order.