How to get next/previous record in MySQL?

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Jakub Arnold picture Jakub Arnold · Sep 18, 2009 · Viewed 214.2k times · Source

Say I have records with IDs 3,4,7,9 and I want to be able to go from one to another by navigation via next/previous links. The problem is, that I don't know how to fetch record with nearest higher ID.

So when I have a record with ID 4, I need to be able to fetch next existing record, which would be 7. The query would probably look something like

SELECT * FROM foo WHERE id = 4 OFFSET 1

How can I fetch next/previous record without fetching the whole result set and manually iterating?

I'm using MySQL 5.

Answer

longneck picture longneck · Sep 18, 2009

next:

select * from foo where id = (select min(id) from foo where id > 4)

previous:

select * from foo where id = (select max(id) from foo where id < 4)

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