"Merlin" <news.groups@web.de> wrote in message 20030420081645.66500.qmail@pb1.pair.com">news:20030420081645.66500.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi there, > > I have a tricky SQL statement which I would like to put on a MySQL 3.X DB I have no experience with 3.x; I can tell you how I would do it on 4.x and you will have to adapt it as needed. > tablelayout: > timestamp user_id points > > The goal is to get out of this table the top 3 users which have acchieved > the most points in the last 7 days. SELECT user_id, SUM(points) AS total FROM table GROUP BY user_id WHERE timestamp > date_sub(NOW(), INTERVAL 7 DAYS) ORDER BY total DESC LIMIT 3 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php