Write a query to fetch the top 2 records

Description: Fetch the 2 students with the highest marks. Then think how to fetch the top N.

Tables: the exercises use the students (id, name, city, marks, course_id) and courses (id, course_name) tables, with the data from our MySQL INSERT chapter. The students are: Robin (Delhi, 85), Maria (Mumbai, 92), John (Pune, 78), Asha (Jaipur, 88), Vikram (Delhi, 65), Neha (Mumbai, 45).

Hint:

• Sort first, then limit.

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MySQL query for the top 2 records

SELECT * FROM students
ORDER BY marks DESC
LIMIT 2;

Output:

How it works

• Change the number after LIMIT to get the top N.
• Without ORDER BY the rows are not guaranteed to be the “top” ones.

Read MySQL LIMIT.

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