Fetch Newly Added Records from MySQL Table

For this, you can use ORDER BY with LIMIT. Here, LIMIT is used to set the limit (count) of records you want to fetch. Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table DemoTable1486
   -> (
   -> StudentId int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
   -> StudentName varchar(20)
   -> );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.66 sec)

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable1486(StudentName) values('Chris Brown');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.14 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable1486(StudentName) values('David Miller');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.11 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable1486(StudentName) values('John Doe');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable1486(StudentName) values('John Smith');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.12 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable1486(StudentName) values('Adam Smith');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable1486(StudentName) values('Carol Taylor');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.16 sec)

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select * from DemoTable1486;

This will produce the following output −

+-----------+--------------+
| StudentId | StudentName  |
+-----------+--------------+
|         1 | Chris Brown  |
|         2 | David Miller |
|         3 | John Doe     |
|         4 | John Smith   |
|         5 | Adam Smith   |
|         6 | Carol Taylor |
+-----------+--------------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Here is the query to get the newly added records −

mysql> select * from DemoTable1486
   -> order by StudentId desc
   -> limit 3;

This will produce the following output −

+-----------+--------------+
| StudentId | StudentName  |
+-----------+--------------+
|         6 | Carol Taylor |
|         5 | Adam Smith   |
|         4 | John Smith   |
+-----------+--------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)