Get the second last record from table

Question

I have tables called names and it has only field called name . It has the following records in it

Ehsan
Malik
Ahmed
Zaryab
Hassan

Now, I have to get the second last record ( Zaryab ) from this table. How can I do that?

Answer 1

If I understand correct, your table doesn't have an id or indexed column. In that case there's not much to do, but to fetch all and get the second last row. However, even if you do that, there is no guarantee that you would get the same result each time.