Get another order after limit

Question

Imagine I\'ve a table \'users\' with two fields: \'age\' and \'name\'. I want to retrieve the top ten older users and then I want this list of ten sorted by name.

Is it

Answer 1

Use a subselect:

SELECT * FROM
(
    SELECT *
    FROM users
    ORDER BY age DESC
    LIMIT 10
) AS T1
ORDER BY name

The inner select finds the 10 rows you want to return, and the outer select puts them in the correct order.