MySQL Subquery Exercises: Query to select last 10 records from a table

MySQL Subquery: Exercise-18 with Solution

Write a query to select last 10 records from a table.

Sample table: employees

Code:

SELECT * FROM (
SELECT * FROM employees ORDER BY employee_id DESC LIMIT 10) sub 
ORDER BY employee_id ASC;

Explanation:

MySQL Subquery Syntax :

- The subquery (inner query) executes once before the main query (outer query) executes.
- The main query (outer query) use the subquery result.

MySQL Code Editor:

Structure of 'hr' database:

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