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MySQL in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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MySQL in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Russell J. T. Dyer
April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
566 pages
21h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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mysql_data_seek()

Synopsis

void mysql_data_seek(MYSQL_RES *result, my_ulonglong offset)

Use this function in conjunction with mysql_store_result() and a fetch function such as mysql_fetch_row() to change the current row being fetched to the one specified in the second argument of this function. Here is an example:

...
mysql_query(mysql, "SELECT client_id, client_name
                    FROM clients ORDER BY start_date");
result = mysql_store_result(mysql);
num_rows = mysql_num_rows(result);
mysql_data_seek(result, (num_rows - 8));
while((row = mysql_fetch_row(result)) != NULL)
  { printf("%s (%s) \n", row[1], row[0]); }
...

This program excerpt retrieves a list of client names along with their respective IDs. Using the mysql_data_seek() function in conjunction with mysql_fetch_row() and a while statement, the last eight clients who started with the company will be displayed.

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