wat will be the sql query to extract only last 3 records
from table supose table hving thousands for records

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wat will be the sql query to extract only last 3 records from table supose table hving thousands f..

Answer / kumar

select top 3 * from tablename
order by 1 desc

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Kumar Junior Software Engineer

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wat will be the sql query to extract only last 3 records from table supose table hving thousands f..

Answer / vijaykumar dolli

Select * From Sample Where
Srno In (Select Top 3 srno From Sample Order By 1 Desc)

-- Sample is a Table Name and Srno is Unique Key column
-- This is the perfect Answer ...!

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wat will be the sql query to extract only last 3 records from table supose table hving thousands f..

Answer / grace

SELECT TOP 3 * FROM <TABLE_NAME> WHERE <CONDITION> ORDER BY
<COLUMN_NAME> DESC

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wat will be the sql query to extract only last 3 records from table supose table hving thousands f..

Answer / krishna sandeep

select top 3 <column_name> from ,table_name> order by
<column_name> desc

this will work.

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wat will be the sql query to extract only last 3 records from table supose table hving thousands f..

Answer / balaji

select * from table_name ORDERBY id DESC limit 0,n;

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wat will be the sql query to extract only last 3 records from table supose table hving thousands f..

Answer / teja

select * from employee where emp_id in
(select top 3 emp_id from employee order by emp_id DESC)

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wat will be the sql query to extract only last 3 records from table supose table hving thousands f..

Answer / amit kaishver

Select * from ( select rownum k,g.* from nbfc_bank_m g) h,
(select max(rownum) a,max(rownum)-1 b,max(rownum)-2 c
from nbfc_bank_m ) p
where h.k in (p.a,p.b,p.c)

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wat will be the sql query to extract only last 3 records from table supose table hving thousands f..

Answer / priya

select top 3 from <table name > where < specify any
condition> order by <column ID> desc

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wat will be the sql query to extract only last 3 records from table supose table hving thousands f..

Answer / tulasi ravi kumar

hi this is tulasi ravi
id - ravi106109@gmail.com

select * from emp where rowid in
(select rowid from emp
minus
select rowid from emp where rownum<=(
select count(*)-3 from emp))


feel free to mail queries,,,.....

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wat will be the sql query to extract only last 3 records from table supose table hving thousands f..

Answer / kumar

You will be do following things one by one in sql server.

first create table.

1.create table tablename(sno int identity(1,1) primar key,
names varchar(100))

insert the record one by one.

2.
Insert into tablename(names) values ('arun')
Insert into tablename(names) values ('arun')
Insert into tablename(names) values ('arun')
Insert into tablename(names) values ('arun')
.
.
.
.
To Insert 1000 record one by one.

Then to execute the following query to get last 3 record.

select top 3 * from tablename
order by 1 desc


you will be get the correct answer ok.

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kumar

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