select 10 rows per day with order

Question

i have a db with records with date (timestamp) i need to select 10 records for each day (there are many more per day) and order them by few columns...

how should that qu

Answer 1

You have to get your 10 records per day in a subquery for each day and join them to the main table by a left join, so you'll get max 10 records per day. The SQL would look like this:

SELECT t1.columns
FROM mytable t1 
  LEFT JOIN 
     (SELECT pk FROM mytable t2 
     WHERE t2.datecol = t1.datecol 
     ORDER BY t2.orderFor10Rows LIMIT 10) t3
  ON t1.pk = t3.pk
ORDER BY t1.anyOtherColumns

No warranty for proper MySQL-syntax as I'm not used to it.