Subqueries And Limit
I am a beginner with MySQL and I have this very large table where queries take a long time to complete. I was trying to limit the amount of time by limiting the scope of the query to only a few rows, by using LIMIT. To that effect a construct like:
SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 100;
seems to work perfectly, because it returns the 1st 100 rows from the table.
The problem is, I cannot use this in a subquery. In other words, if I try something like:
SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 100) as temp;
I'm getting an error. I read the documentation about subqueries in the FROM clause, but I cannot figure out what's qrong with the syntax.
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