Is MySQL LIMIT applied before or after ORDER BY?

Question

Which one comes first when MySQL processes the query?

An example:

SELECT pageRegions
FROM pageRegions WHERE(pageID=?) AND(published=true) AND (publis         


        

Answer 1

Just wanted to point out the in case of MySQL ordering is applied before limiting the results. But this is not true for other DB.

For example Oracle first limits results and applies ordering on said results. It makes sense when you think about it from a performance point of view. In MySQL you are actually ordering the entire DB(> 1000 records) to get 2