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Q&A Why OFFSET isn't working the way it is expected?

The script is read like this : SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `gender`='Female' ORDER BY `birth_year` DESC LIMIT "take n rows" OFFSET "skip n rows" So when I wrote SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `ge...

posted 2y ago by billy‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar billy‭ · 2022-11-03T15:13:44Z (about 2 years ago)
The script is read like this :

```
SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `gender`='Female' ORDER BY `birth_year` DESC LIMIT "take n rows" OFFSET "skip n rows"
```

So when I wrote 

```
SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `gender`='Female' ORDER BY `birth_year` DESC LIMIT 10 OFFSET 0
```
It was saying to skip 0 rows and take followed 10 rows. For OFFSET=1, it was skipping only id=3 and taking other 10 rows. 

So the script should be like this :

```
SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `gender`='Female' ORDER BY `birth_year` DESC LIMIT 10 OFFSET 0
```
Then OFFSET will increase like this : 10, 20, 30, 40, 50..... Then the data will be shown correctly.