SQL Selecting “Window” Around Particular Row

Question

It\'s quite possible a question like this has been asked before, but I can\'t think of the terms to search for.

I\'m working on a photo gallery application, and want

Answer 1

Probably could just use a UNION, and then trim off the extra results in the procedural code that displays the results (as this will return 20 rows in the non-edge cases):

(SELECT 
     * 
FROM photos
   WHERE ID < #current_id#
   ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 10)
UNION
  (SELECT *
   FROM photos
   WHERE ID >= #current_id#
   ORDER BY ID ASC LIMIT 10)
ORDER BY ID ASC

EDIT: Increased limit to 10 on both sides of the UNION, as suggested by le dorfier.

EDIT 2: Modified to better reflect final implementation, as suggested by Dominic.